There are many complexes of various types operating in the Ural District. Not least on the list of industries are mechanical engineering enterprises, in particular automobile factories. There are several auto complexes in this area in the region; one of the most famous among them is Kurgan bus factory"KAvZ".
This enterprise, part of the GAZ Group, has been operating since 1958. A year earlier, an order was received to form a bus production facility in Kurgan. Thus, production of the PAZ-61 model was transferred from the Pavlovsk Automobile Plant. From that time until 2007, the Kurgan bus complex produced low-capacity passenger bonnets vehicles on GAZ chassis.
In 2007, production of bonneted buses was discontinued; the decision was made in connection with the transition of the enterprise to new level. So the Kurgan Bus Plant (KAvZ) began to produce low-floor mid-size models for intra-city buses. passenger transportation. Currently, the auto complex operates in the production of buses from 8 to 10 meters long for city, intercity and suburban transportation passengers.
The Kurgan Bus Plant, whose website can be found on the Internet, is currently a powerful production complex that is constantly expanding its range of products. The models produced by the Kurgan bus complex are supplied not only to Russian cities, but also to foreign countries.
Kurgan bus plant "KAvZ": products
Currently, the product range of the KavZ enterprise consists of the following types of products:
- small class models based on the GAZ chassis;
- small class variants based on the ZIL chassis;
- middle class buses.
One of the core activities of the KavZ enterprise is the production of school buses. The company became the first complex in Russia to develop a bus for transporting schoolchildren in accordance with all GOST standards.
K:Enterprises founded in 1958 KAVZ LLC(previously Kurgan Bus Plant named after the 60th anniversary of the USSR, KavZ listen)) is a manufacturer of buses in Russia. Located in the city of Kurgan. Since 2005, it has been part of the Buses Division of the GAZ Group holding, and since 2001 it has been part of the GAZ Group.LLC "KAvZ" is a subsidiary of OJSC "GAZ" (100% share in the authorized capital). The functions of the sole executive body of this company are performed by management organization- LLC "UK "Group GAZ"".
Story
Initially, since 1953, the plant was built as part of the defense complex. On September 19, 1957, the Order of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR was issued on the transfer of production of the PAZ-651 bus from the Pavlovsk Bus Plant to Kurgan and the organization of production of hood-type KAVZ-651 buses based on the GAZ-51 car.
In 1986, SPTU-34 was opened at the plant to train workers.
In the 1990s, due to changes in industries National economy, including rural, consumer demand for small-capacity buses, the main consumers of which were state farms, collective farms, and state-owned enterprises of line ministries, sharply decreased. A decline in production began: if in 1989 20 thousand buses were produced, then in 1994 - 4 thousand, in 1995 - 1186, in 1997 - 769 vehicles. Number of employees at KavZ: in 1968 - 1594 people, in 1970 - 2076 people, in 1980 - 3955 people, in 1990 - 4513 people, in 1999 - 3300 people. By 1993, the plant had prepared and organized the production of a new family of modular assembly coach-type buses with a capacity of 24 passengers. places, in a volume of 150-200 pcs. in year. It was here that in 1992 the first carriage-type buses KAvZ-3275, KAvZ-32784, KAvZ-3278 were manufactured, differing more high level comfortable and meeting international safety requirements.
In order to meet market needs for buses large capacity in 1998 technical services new models of buses are being developed on the heavy-duty ZIL-4331 chassis - these are models of urban and commuter buses KAvZ-422910, 4229-01. Much attention is also paid to conquering the market for rotational buses. The KAVZ-422990 bus model is being developed on a ZIL all-wheel drive chassis with a 6x6 wheel arrangement. In addition, in 1998, KAVZ returned to the production of rotational vehicles on the URAL chassis, the first batch of which was produced in 1981.
As part of the strategy to bring the enterprise out of a pre-bankruptcy state, in 2001 the Kurgan Bus Plant developed a school bus that most fully meets the GOST requirements for buses for transporting children. The first order for the supply of buses, within the framework of the “School Bus” program, was completed by KAvZ in 2001 in the amount of 55 units for the Yaroslavl region. In the two years since the start of the program, within the framework of the national project “Education,” the Kurgan Bus Plant has manufactured and supplied about 3 thousand school buses to all regions of the Russian Federation. This solution to the problem of transporting schoolchildren to rural areas neighboring countries also became interested. Thus, the first school buses have already been delivered by the Kurgan Bus Plant to the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
March 14, 2006 Open Joint-Stock Company"Kurgan Bus Plant" (TIN 4501022299) ceased operations based on the arbitration court's ruling on the completion of bankruptcy proceedings.
KAVZ LLC
On June 19, 2003, KAVZ LLC was created (TIN 4501103580), which became part of the RusPromAvto holding of Oleg Deripaska, who breathed a second life into the plant. In 2005, in connection with the reorganization of RusPromAvto, KAvZ entered the Buses division of the GAZ group, which unites the main manufacturers of bus and automotive technology in Russia.
Joining the holding opened up prospects for the plant's production development. The company's management made a strategic decision - to organize the production of middle-class buses PAZ-4230 "Aurora" at the Kurgan Bus Plant. Since 2003 production different modifications These buses were installed at KavZ. Long version This bus - PAZ-4238 "Aurora" began to be produced at the Kurgan Bus Plant in 2006, under the designation KAvZ-4238. In 2008, due to tightening environmental standards, the KAVZ-4235 model was developed, which replaced the PAZ-4230 on the production line.
The Kurgan Bus Plant is constantly expanding its geography of supplies not only in Russia and the CIS countries, but also in countries far abroad. From 2009-2011 380 KAVZ buses were delivered to the Republic of Nicaragua, intended for renovation transport fleet countries.
In 2013, about 600 people worked at the plant, in 2014 - about 400 people
Today the enterprise has all the resources to update production: reconstruction is carried out, modernization of technological flows, purchasing the latest equipment with numerical program control for processing pipe blanks, laser complex for cutting blanks.
Modern lineup
At the end of 2007, with the discontinuation of the KavZ-3976 family, the 50-year history of Kurgan bonneted small-class buses on GAZ truck chassis ended. Finely mass production half-hood bus KAVZ-3244, carried out by a subsidiary of Vika LTD LLC, was discontinued in 2007.
The KAvZ production program for 2009 consisted of rear-engine mid-size buses of the modernized Aurora family KAvZ-4235 and KAvZ-4238 for suburban and inter-district traffic, as well as the urban low-floor midibus KAvZ-4239 on a Chinese chassis.
The lineup The plant includes middle-class buses KAvZ-4235 and KAvZ-4238 “Aurora” in urban and suburban, school modifications. In 2010, the Kurgan plant carried out the first stage of restyling basic models. The buses received a modified front mask, new engine, transmission, electrical equipment. In 2011, the plant began the second stage - the buses will receive a new interior.
In 2011-2012 Cummins engine was linked environmental standard"Euro-4" to the plant's model range.
History of hooded KAVZ buses
Release of all hood KAvZ buses was discontinued at the end of 2007 due to plans to modernize the enterprise and the transition to the production of fundamentally new products in the form of urban mid-size low-floor buses model 4239, made at Chinese units(chassis and power point). Accordingly, the entire production line for assembling “bonnets” was “completely reconstructed” (sold as scrap metal).
According to an article in the magazine “Autoreview - Trucks and Buses” for 2008, the cost of the latest hooded KAvZ models at the time of production closure was from 525 thousand rubles, which put this bus out of competition with more expensive and lower quality products Chinese auto industry or containing Chinese components - at the same time, the cabover KAVZ-4239 on a Chinese chassis was already valued at 2.57 million rubles - the price of five hooded buses.
In 1998-2007 KavZ's subsidiary, Vika LTD LLC, produced the KavZ-3244 small-class bus with a capacity of 29 passengers (15 seats) with a diesel engine on a standard ZIL-5301BO chassis. MMZ engine D-245 with a power of 109 hp. With. with turbocharging. The KavZ-32441 modification with a capacity of 19-22 passengers was also produced on the extended ZIL-5301EO chassis.
KAvZ rotation buses on the Likhachev Plant and Ural chassis (KAvZ-422990, KAvZ-422991 and KAvZ-42243) were produced in limited series in 1996-2003, but during the restructuring of the enterprise they were reduced as non-core products. The last “shift” of KavZ was in 2004, model 39766 on the all-wheel drive GAZ-3308 “Sadko” chassis.
Director
- August 20, 1953 - 1961 Klinsky, Viktor Pavlovich
- June 12, 2004 - March 14, 2006 Vadim Pavlovich Soloviev (bankruptcy manager)
- September 27, 2005 - March 1, 2007 Kadylkin, Viktor Sergeevich
- Since February 2, 2010 LLC “Management Company “GAZ Group”
- 2007-2011 Shalaev, Oleg Viktorovich (Managing Director)
- Since 2011 Alsaraev, Alexander Viktorovich (Managing Director, until 2015 - Acting Managing Director)
President of JSC Kurgan Bus Plant
- Antoshkin, Alexander Sergeevich, killed on December 4, 2002. (OCG "Lokomotiv").
Factory awards
- In 1973, a pilot batch of the KavZ-3100 urban bus was produced international exhibition"Autoservice-73" was awarded an Honorary Diploma.
- In 1982, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, the Kurgan Bus Plant, which had repeatedly taken 1st place among enterprises in its industry, was named after the 60th anniversary of the USSR. The KAVZ-685 M bus was awarded state badge quality.
- In 1994, at the international Moscow exhibition “Motor Show-94”, the KavZ-3276 bus on a MAN chassis, optimized by the German company Ernst Auwerter, was awarded the title “Stars of the Salon”.
- In 1995, thanks to the creative work of the plant’s designers, the first Russian “camper” was created on the GAZ-3302 chassis. "Motohata" had big success at the Moscow "Autosalon-95" and received high praise from the Minister for emergency situations S.K. Shoigu and the president of the Swiss travel company - the customer of this model, Karl Eckstein.
- In 1998 received Diploma 100 best products Russia (KAvZ-3244), Moscow.
- In 1999, he received a Diploma for the best exhibit (KAvZ-32441) at the international exhibition-fair “TransSib-Expo”, Kemerovo.
- In 1999, KAvZ received a III degree diploma and a bronze medal for the development of new types of buses at the Moscow exhibition “Moscow. Regions of Russia" (bus model KAvZ-3244 "Bychok")
- In 1999, the title of Youth Prize Laureate was awarded to the team of Vika LLC for creating the only social taxi in Russia for disabled people (KAvZ-3244 for disabled people).
- In 2002 received a 1st degree Diploma and Golden medal(KAvZ-39765 “school”) for the best exhibit, exhibition-fair “Expo-Siberia”, Kemerovo.
- In 2010, a bus for transporting children was awarded the “100 Best Products of Russia” sign.
- In 2011, the city low-floor bus was awarded the “100 Best Products of Russia” sign.
Team awards
- Order of Lenin - 2 people.
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor - 16 people.
Address
640008, Russian Federation, Kurgan region, Kurgan, st. Avtozavodskaya, 5 k.3
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- To His Majesty with an errand.- Here he is! - said Boris, who heard that Rostov needed His Highness, instead of His Majesty.
And he pointed him to the Grand Duke, who, a hundred paces away from them, in a helmet and a cavalry guard's tunic, with his raised shoulders and frowning eyebrows, was shouting something to the white and pale Austrian officer.
“But this is the Grand Duke, and I’m going to the commander-in-chief or the sovereign,” said Rostov and started to move his horse.
- Count, count! - shouted Berg, as animated as Boris, running up from the other side, - Count, I was wounded in my right hand (he said, showing his hand, bloody, tied with a handkerchief) and remained in the front. Count, holding a sword in my left hand: in our race, the von Bergs, Count, were all knights.
Berg said something else, but Rostov, without listening to him, had already moved on.
Having passed the guards and an empty gap, Rostov, in order not to fall into the first line again, as he came under attack by the cavalry guards, rode along the line of reserves, going far around the place where the hottest shooting and cannonade was heard. Suddenly, in front of him and behind our troops, in a place where he could not possibly suspect the enemy, he heard close rifle fire.
"What could it be? - thought Rostov. - Is the enemy behind our troops? It can’t be, Rostov thought, and a horror of fear for himself and for the outcome of the entire battle suddenly came over him. “Whatever it is, however,” he thought, “there’s nothing to go around now.” I must look for the commander-in-chief here, and if everything is lost, then it’s my job to perish along with everyone else.”
The bad feeling that suddenly came over Rostov was confirmed more and more the further he drove into the space occupied by crowds of heterogeneous troops, located beyond the village of Prats.
- What's happened? What's happened? Who are they shooting at? Who's shooting? - Rostov asked, matching the Russian and Austrian soldiers running in mixed crowds across his road.
- The devil knows them? Beat everyone! Get lost! - the crowds of people running and not understanding, just like him, what was happening here, answered him in Russian, German and Czech.
- Beat the Germans! - one shouted.
- Damn them - traitors.
“Zum Henker diese Ruesen... [To hell with these Russians...],” the German grumbled something.
Several wounded were walking along the road. Curses, screams, moans merged into one common roar. The shooting died down and, as Rostov later learned, Russian and Austrian soldiers were shooting at each other.
"My God! what is this? - thought Rostov. - And here, where the sovereign can see them at any moment... But no, these are probably just a few scoundrels. This will pass, this is not it, this cannot be, he thought. “Just hurry up, pass them quickly!”
The thought of defeat and flight could not enter Rostov’s head. Although he saw French guns and troops precisely on Pratsenskaya Mountain, on the very one where he was ordered to look for the commander-in-chief, he could not and did not want to believe it.
Near the village of Pratsa, Rostov was ordered to look for Kutuzov and the sovereign. But here not only were they not there, but there was not a single commander, but there were heterogeneous crowds of frustrated troops.
He urged his already tired horse to get through these crowds as quickly as possible, but the further he moved, the more upset the crowds became. By high road The area where he drove out was crowded with carriages, carriages of all kinds, Russian and Austrian soldiers, of all branches of the military, wounded and unwounded. All this hummed and swarmed in a mixed manner to the gloomy sound of flying cannonballs from the French batteries placed on the Pratsen Heights.
-Where is the sovereign? where is Kutuzov? - Rostov asked everyone he could stop, and could not get an answer from anyone.
Finally, grabbing the soldier by the collar, he forced him to answer himself.
- Eh! Brother! Everyone has been there for a long time, they have fled ahead! - the soldier said to Rostov, laughing at something and breaking free.
Leaving this soldier, who was obviously drunk, Rostov stopped the horse of the orderly or the guard of an important person and began to question him. The orderly announced to Rostov that an hour ago the sovereign had been driven at full speed in a carriage along this very road, and that the sovereign was dangerously wounded.
“It can’t be,” said Rostov, “that’s right, someone else.”
“I saw it myself,” said the orderly with a self-confident grin. “It’s time for me to know the sovereign: it seems like how many times I’ve seen something like this in St. Petersburg.” A pale, very pale man sits in a carriage. As soon as the four blacks let loose, my fathers, he thundered past us: it’s time, it seems, to know both the royal horses and Ilya Ivanovich; It seems that the coachman does not ride with anyone else like the Tsar.
Rostov let his horse go and wanted to ride on. A wounded officer walking past turned to him.
-Who do you want? – asked the officer. - Commander-in-Chief? So he was killed by a cannonball, killed in the chest by our regiment.
“Not killed, wounded,” another officer corrected.
- Who? Kutuzov? - asked Rostov.
- Not Kutuzov, but whatever you call him - well, it’s all the same, there aren’t many alive left. Go over there, to that village, all the authorities have gathered there,” said this officer, pointing to the village of Gostieradek, and walked past.
Rostov rode at a pace, not knowing why or to whom he would go now. The Emperor is wounded, the battle is lost. It was impossible not to believe it now. Rostov drove in the direction that was shown to him and in which a tower and a church could be seen in the distance. What was his hurry? What could he now say to the sovereign or Kutuzov, even if they were alive and not wounded?
“Go this way, your honor, and here they will kill you,” the soldier shouted to him. - They'll kill you here!
- ABOUT! what are you saying! said another. -Where will he go? It's closer here.
Rostov thought about it and drove exactly in the direction where he was told that he would be killed.
“Now it doesn’t matter: if the sovereign is wounded, should I really take care of myself?” he thought. He entered the area where most of the people fleeing from Pratsen died. The French had not yet occupied this place, and the Russians, those who were alive or wounded, had long abandoned it. On the field, like heaps of good arable land, lay ten people, fifteen killed and wounded on every tithe of space. The wounded crawled down in twos and threes together, and one could hear their unpleasant, sometimes feigned, as it seemed to Rostov, screams and moans. Rostov started to trot his horse so as not to see all these suffering people, and he became scared. He feared not for his life, but for the courage that he needed and which, he knew, would not withstand the sight of these unfortunates.
The French, who stopped shooting at this field strewn with the dead and wounded, because there was no one alive on it, saw the adjutant riding along it, aimed a gun at him and threw several cannonballs. The feeling of these whistling, terrible sounds and the surrounding dead people merged for Rostov into one impression of horror and self-pity. He remembered his mother's last letter. “What would she feel,” he thought, “if she saw me now here, on this field and with guns pointed at me.”
In the village of Gostieradeke there were, although confused, but in greater order, Russian troops marching away from the battlefield. The French cannonballs could no longer reach here, and the sounds of firing seemed distant. Here everyone already clearly saw and said that the battle was lost. Whoever Rostov turned to, no one could tell him where the sovereign was, or where Kutuzov was. Some said that the rumor about the sovereign’s wound was true, others said that it was not, and explained this false rumor that had spread by the fact that, indeed, the pale and frightened Chief Marshal Count Tolstoy galloped back from the battlefield in the sovereign’s carriage, who rode out with others in the emperor’s retinue on the battlefield. One officer told Rostov that beyond the village, to the left, he saw someone from the higher authorities, and Rostov went there, no longer hoping to find anyone, but only to clear his conscience before himself. Having traveled about three miles and having passed the last Russian troops, near a vegetable garden dug in by a ditch, Rostov saw two horsemen standing opposite the ditch. One, with a white plume on his hat, seemed familiar to Rostov for some reason; another, unfamiliar rider, on a beautiful red horse (this horse seemed familiar to Rostov) rode up to the ditch, pushed the horse with his spurs and, releasing the reins, easily jumped over the ditch in the garden. Only the earth crumbled from the embankment from the horse’s hind hooves. Turning his horse sharply, he again jumped back over the ditch and respectfully addressed the rider with the white plume, apparently inviting him to do the same. The horseman, whose figure seemed familiar to Rostov and for some reason involuntarily attracted his attention, made a negative gesture with his head and hand, and by this gesture Rostov instantly recognized his lamented, adored sovereign.
“But it couldn’t be him, alone in the middle of this empty field,” thought Rostov. At this time, Alexander turned his head, and Rostov saw his favorite features so vividly etched in his memory. The Emperor was pale, his cheeks were sunken and his eyes sunken; but there was even more charm and meekness in his features. Rostov was happy, convinced that the rumor about the sovereign’s wound was unfair. He was happy that he saw him. He knew that he could, even had to, directly turn to him and convey what he was ordered to convey from Dolgorukov.
But just as a young man in love trembles and faints, not daring to say what he dreams of at night, and looks around in fear, looking for help or the possibility of delay and escape, when the desired moment has come and he stands alone with her, so Rostov now, having achieved that , what he wanted more than anything in the world, did not know how to approach the sovereign, and he was presented with thousands of reasons why it was inconvenient, indecent and impossible.
"How! I seem to be glad to take advantage of the fact that he is alone and despondent. An unknown face may seem unpleasant and difficult to him at this moment of sadness; Then what can I tell him now, when just looking at him my heart skips a beat and my mouth goes dry?” Not one of those countless speeches that he, addressing the sovereign, composed in his imagination, came to his mind now. Those speeches were for the most part held under completely different conditions, they were spoken for the most part at the moment of victories and triumphs and mainly on his deathbed from his wounds, while the sovereign thanked him for his heroic deeds, and he, dying, expressed his love confirmed in practice my.
“Then why should I ask the sovereign about his orders to the right flank, when it is already 4 o’clock in the evening and the battle is lost? No, I definitely shouldn’t approach him. Shouldn't disturb his reverie. It’s better to die a thousand times than to receive a bad look from him, a bad opinion,” Rostov decided and with sadness and despair in his heart he drove away, constantly looking back at the sovereign, who was still standing in the same position of indecisiveness.
While Rostov was making these considerations and sadly driving away from the sovereign, Captain von Toll accidentally drove into the same place and, seeing the sovereign, drove straight up to him, offered him his services and helped him cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wanting to rest and feeling unwell, sat down under an apple tree, and Tol stopped next to him. From afar, Rostov saw with envy and remorse how von Tol spoke for a long time and passionately to the sovereign, and how the sovereign, apparently crying, closed his eyes with his hand and shook hands with Tol.
“And I could be in his place?” Rostov thought to himself and, barely holding back tears of regret for the fate of the sovereign, in complete despair he drove on, not knowing where and why he was going now.
His despair was the greater because he felt that his own weakness was the cause of his grief.
He could... not only could, but he had to drive up to the sovereign. And this was the only opportunity to show the sovereign his devotion. And he didn’t use it... “What have I done?” he thought. And he turned his horse and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor; but there was no one behind the ditch anymore. Only carts and carriages were driving. From one furman, Rostov learned that the Kutuzov headquarters was located nearby in the village where the convoys were going. Rostov went after them.
The guard Kutuzov walked ahead of him, leading horses in blankets. Behind the bereytor there was a cart, and behind the cart walked an old servant, in a cap, a sheepskin coat and with bowed legs.
- Titus, oh Titus! - said the bereitor.
- What? - the old man answered absentmindedly.
- Titus! Go threshing.
- Eh, fool, ugh! – the old man said, spitting angrily. Some time passed in silent movement, and the same joke was repeated again.
At five o'clock in the evening the battle was lost at all points. More than a hundred guns were already in the hands of the French.
Przhebyshevsky and his corps laid down their weapons. Other columns, having lost about half of the people, retreated in frustrated, mixed crowds.
The remnants of the troops of Lanzheron and Dokhturov, mingled, crowded around the ponds on the dams and banks near the village of Augesta.
At 6 o'clock only at the Augesta dam the hot cannonade of the French alone could still be heard, who had built numerous batteries on the descent of the Pratsen Heights and were hitting our retreating troops.
In the rearguard, Dokhturov and others, gathering battalions, fired back at the French cavalry that was pursuing ours. It was starting to get dark. On the narrow dam of Augest, on which for so many years an old miller sat peacefully in a cap with fishing rods, while his grandson, rolling up his shirt sleeves, was sorting out silver quivering fish in a watering can; on this dam, along which for so many years the Moravians drove peacefully on their twin carts loaded with wheat, in shaggy hats and blue jackets and, dusted with flour, with white carts leaving along the same dam - on this narrow dam now between wagons and cannons, under the horses and between the wheels crowded people disfigured by the fear of death, crushing each other, dying, walking over the dying and killing each other only so that, after walking a few steps, to be sure. also killed.
Every ten seconds, pumping up the air, a cannonball splashed or a grenade exploded in the middle of this dense crowd, killing and sprinkling blood on those who stood close. Dolokhov, wounded in the arm, on foot with a dozen soldiers of his company (he was already an officer) and his regimental commander, on horseback, represented the remnants of the entire regiment. Drawn by the crowd, they pressed into the entrance to the dam and, pressed on all sides, stopped because a horse in front fell under a cannon, and the crowd was pulling it out. One cannonball killed someone behind them, the other hit in front and splashed Dolokhov’s blood. The crowd moved desperately, shrank, moved a few steps and stopped again.
Walk these hundred steps, and you will probably be saved; stand for another two minutes, and everyone probably thought he was dead. Dolokhov, standing in the middle of the crowd, rushed to the edge of the dam, knocking down two soldiers, and fled onto the slippery ice that covered the pond.
“Turn,” he shouted, jumping on the ice that was cracking under him, “turn!” - he shouted at the gun. - Holds!...
The ice held it, but it bent and cracked, and it was obvious that not only under a gun or a crowd of people, but under it alone it would collapse. They looked at him and huddled close to the shore, not daring to step on the ice yet. The regiment commander, standing on horseback at the entrance, raised his hand and opened his mouth, addressing Dolokhov. Suddenly one of the cannonballs whistled so low over the crowd that everyone bent down. Something splashed into the wet water, and the general and his horse fell into a pool of blood. No one looked at the general, no one thought to raise him.
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A country: Russia
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Full name of the head of the company Shalaev Oleg Viktorovich
Official site Kurgan Bus Plant LLC (KAVZ): http://kavz.gaz.ru/
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Full name: Kurgan Bus Plant Limited Liability Company
Short title: KAVZ
AMTS code 3522
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Production and sale of buses on GAZ chassis, funeral vehicles, watches.
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640008, Russia, Kurgan, st. Avtozavodskaya. 5
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Production and sales various modifications buses for transporting passengers, special equipment for funeral services, special buses for transporting shift and repair crews, including equipment.
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| Full title: | "Kurgan Bus Plant" |
| Former name: | "Kurgan Bus Plant named after. 60th anniversary of the USSR" |
| Existence: | 1958 - present day |
| Location: | USSR, Russia, Kurgan, st. Avtozavodskaya, 5 |
| Key figures: | Alsaraev Alexander Viktorovich (acting managing director) |
| Products: | Middle class buses. |
| The lineup: | KaVZ-985 |
History of the creation of the enterprise.
Kurgan Bus Plant (KAvZ)- one of the largest bus manufacturing plants in Russia. The plant ranks first in the production of passenger bonneted vehicles (based on truck chassis) for work on highways and rural off-road conditions. For more than 50 years of its work, KAvZ has produced over 440 thousand buses.
The history of the plant began with the transfer of production of the PAZ-651A bus (a modernized GZA bus) to it at the end of 1957. This accelerated the launch of the enterprise, and already on January 14, 1958, after a new modernization, production of the first KAVZ-651A buses was launched. These were small-class bonnet-type buses (20-seater) based on the GAZ-51A truck chassis. KAvZ-651A was produced for 13 years (1958 – 1971). Subsequent bus models, like the first model, were based on modified truck chassis Gorky Automobile Plant. Since 1971 until 1984, the Kurgan Bus Plant, based on the GAZ-53-40 chassis, produced a 21-seater model of the KAVZ-685 bus. In 1984, it was moved to the GAZ-53-12 chassis, and in 1986 it received the KAvZ-3270 index. Annual production volumes of KAVZ-685 and KAVZ-3270 buses in the 70s and 80s. reached 18-20 thousand units. Maximum amount cars (20,008 units) were produced in 1989. The production of these two models was the most massive in the history of both the Kurgan plant itself and the world bus industry.
During the first five years of its existence, KAVZ achieved a very large annual production volume - 5000 units per year. By 1967, the plant had already produced 50,000 buses of the basic model KAvZ-651A.
After the reconstruction of the plant (1967 - 1977), the production of buses was increased, their quality was improved, and the cost was reduced. In 1974, KAvZ produced its hundred thousandth bus. Since 1977, production volumes have increased every year by almost 2 thousand units, thus it was planned to reach a production capacity of 20,000 buses per year.
In 1981, the plant produced more than a dozen prototypes of the KAvZ-52561 model, a high-capacity commuter bus. But the Ministry automotive industry suspended this project.
In 1982, a significant event took place for the Kurgan Bus Plant: by decision of the Supreme Presidium of the RSFSR Council, KAVZ began to be called after the “60th anniversary of the USSR”. Moreover, the KAvZ-685 M bus received the state award “Quality Mark”.
In 1989, the KAvZ-397620 model was released. It was a 20-seater bus on a GAZ-33074 chassis. Later, the KAvZ-397620 bus was modified for cargo-passenger and special (sanitary, service, etc.) models. In 1993, by lengthening the GAZ-33074 chassis along the wheelbase (from 3700 mm to 4550 mm), the 28-seater KAVZ-39765 bus was created. In 2001, it was modified according to GOST R51160 "Buses for transporting children" in school bus KAvZ-397653. Serial production of this model has begun.
During the crisis of the 90s. The demand for small-capacity buses has decreased markedly. Production capacity were sharply reduced to approximately the level of the early 70s. Debts to creditors were constantly increasing.
The plant had to repurpose itself to produce high-capacity city buses due to the technical re-equipment of reserve capacities.
In 1993, the production of modular assembly coach-type buses, designed for 24 passengers, began. passenger seats. For these purposes, a year earlier, to create experimental models, a subsidiary of AK KAVZ, Vika LLC, was created. At the same time, in 1992, the first carriage-type buses KAVZ-3278, KAVZ-3275, KAVZ-32784 began to be produced. These models were distinguished by increased comfort and met international safety requirements. The annual production of carriage-type buses amounted to 150–200 units.
In 1994, eight high-capacity city buses of the Ikarus-260 model and two copies of the especially large-capacity Ikarus-280 bus were produced. Two years later, according to an international tender, 168 units of the Ikarus-283.10 model were produced for the city of Yekaterinburg.
In July 1997, Kurgan regional arbitration court, at the initiative of creditors, made a decision to introduce external arbitration management on the territory of the plant. This helped KAvZ get out of the difficult economic situation that had arisen. Later, after the removal of external arbitration management, the enterprise again began to operate in the previous mode of an Open Joint Stock Company.
In 1998 at Kurgan plant began developing new bus models based on heavy-duty ZIL chassis. City (KAvZ-422910) and suburban (KAvZ-4229-01) buses were created. The plant also tried to conquer the market for rotational buses. For these purposes, the production of all-wheel drive buses KAvZ-422990, as well as buses based on the Ural chassis, was organized.
Issues in 1996 – 2003 rotational buses based on the Ural and Zil chassis (KAvZ-422991, KAvZ-422990, KAvZ-42243) were limited, and after the restructuring of the plant they were reduced as products that did not correspond to the profile. Last released by rotation bus in 2004, the KAVZ-39766 “Sadko” model, based on the GAZ-3308 all-wheel drive chassis, became available.
At the dawn of the 21st century.
In 2001, the KAvZ enterprise became part of the large engineering holding RusPromAvto, which at that time united most manufacturers of automobile and bus equipment on Russian territory.
In 2004, the plant began assembling buses, the development of which began in 2002 - PAZ-4230 Aurora.
In 2007, small-scale production of the half-hood bus KAvZ-3244, which was carried out by a subsidiary of Vika LLC, was curtailed. The production of medium city buses of the KAvZ-4239 model was transferred to the main conveyor.
In January 2008, the Kurgan Bus Plant celebrated its 50th anniversary. At the same time, the enterprise was restructured, and the KAvZ-3976 model was discontinued. Half a century of history of small-class bonnet-type buses based on chassis trucks GAZ has come to an end.
The plant began to increase its capacity to produce medium-sized PAZ-4230 Aurora buses.
On this moment, the main products of the Kurgan Bus Plant are rear-engined medium-sized modernized buses for inter-district and suburban traffic "Aurora" KAvZ-4235 and KAvZ-4238, as well as an urban low-floor midibus based on the Chinese KAvZ-4239 chassis.
KAVZ is one of the largest Russian bus companies. The plant was built on January 14, 1958 specifically for the production of hooded buses on the GAZ-51 chassis with good cross-country ability on rural roads, necessary to solve the problem of transporting the population in the northern regions, in mountainous regions. Over the years of its existence, the Kurgan Bus Plant has grown into the most modern enterprise. In 2001, the Kurgan Bus Plant became part of the GAZ Group. Joining the GAZ Group opened up prospects for the plant's production development. The company's management made a strategic decision - to organize the production of medium-sized PAZ-4230 Aurora buses at the Kurgan Bus Plant. In 2008, KavZ completely stopped production of KavZ-3976 hooded buses. Today, the main activities of the enterprise are the production of medium-sized buses KAvZ 4235 "Aurora" and city low-floor buses KAvZ-4239, which were awarded the People's Choice Diploma at the InterAuto-2007 exhibition. In three years, the plant plans to annually produce up to 2,000 KAVZ-4239 buses. Thanks to optimal pricing policy and almost half a century of presence of the plant in Russian market KAVZ brand buses have received well-deserved recognition and have been repeatedly awarded medals and honorary diplomas at Russian exhibitions
