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Native name
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ООО «Курганский автобусный завод» |
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Formerly called
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Курганский автобусный завод им. 60-летия Союза ССР |
Private limited company | |
Industry | Mechanical engineering |
Founded | 1958 |
Headquarters | Kurgan, KGN, Russia |
Key people
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Alexander Viktorovich Alsarayev, acting managing director |
Products | Middle range buses |
Services | Bus manufacturing |
Number of employees
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circa 600 (2013) |
Parent | GAZ Group |
Website | bus |
KAvZ (Russian: Курга́нский авто́бусный заво́д, КАвЗ, Kurgansky Avtobusny Zavod) 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.