KAvZ

Native name	ООО «Курганский автобусный завод»
Formerly	Курганский автобусный завод им. 60-летия Союза ССР
Company type	Private limited company
Industry	Mechanical engineering
Founded	1958 (1958)
Headquarters	Kurgan, KGN , Russia
Key people	Alexander Viktorovich Alsarayev, acting managing director
Products	Middle range buses
Services	Bus manufacturing
Number of employees	circa 600 (2013)
Parent	GAZ Group Bus Division
Website	bus.ru

KAvZ ( Russian: Курганский автобусный завод (КАвЗ), romanized: Kurgansky Avtobusny Zavod, lit. 'Kurgan Bus Plant') is a bus manufacturer in Kurgan, KGN, Russia. The factory started producing buses in 1958, based on trucks from GAZ. During the 1990s, it assembled Ikarus buses for the Russian market. Now a subsidiary of GAZ, it specialises in producing small buses, in particular school buses.

KAvZ is a subsidiary of Russian Buses which is a subsidiary of GAZ Group. Starting in 2015, the GAZ Group has introduced a single brand for all its bus manufacturing subsidiaries, and newly manufactured vehicles now feature the deer badge of the GAZ company. ^[1]

Models

Current

• KAvZ-4238 Aurora (2006–present)
• KAvZ-4235 Aurora (2008–present)
• KAvZ-4270 (2016–present)

Former

• KAvZ-651 (1958-1973)
• KAvZ-663 (1961-1966)
• KAvZ-685/3270/3271 (1971-1991)
• KAvZ-3100 (1976)
• KAvZ-49471 (1981-1985) - truckbus
• KAvZ-4959 (1985) - truckbus
• KAvZ-3275 (1991-1998)
• KAvZ-3976 (1993-2007)
• KAvZ-4229 (1998)
• KAvZ-4224 (1998-2003) -truckbus
• KAvZ-3244 (1998-2007)
• KAvZ-39766 (2002-2008)
• KAvZ-4239 (2008-2014)

References

External links

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• Official site (Russian)
• Official website (English)
• Profile on the GAZ website
• Cars from East

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