Pavlovo Bus Factory
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Chimney of Pavlovo bus factory
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Native name
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ОАО «Па́вловский авто́бус» |
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| Traded as | MCX: PAZA |
| Industry | Automotive, ISIC: 2910 |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Headquarters | Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia |
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Key people
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Andrei Vladimirovich Vasiliev |
| Products | Buses |
| Parent | GAZ Group |
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paz-bus autobus |
Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod is a manufacturer of buses in Russia, located in the city of Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. PAZ is a subsidiary of Russian Buses which is a division of GAZ.
The building of the factory started in 1952, and in the same year the first buses PAZ-651 (based on GAZ-51) were produced. The government had a plan to produce 10,000 buses per year. In 1960, the production of new model PAZ-652 started. It was replaced by PAZ-672 in early 1968, and this bus had a large family of various modifications. 1989 saw a start of production of the new modernised model PAZ-3205.
The small PAZ buses have long been used by Russian "fixed-route taxi" (marshrutka) operators.
Pavlovo Bus Factory specializes in designing and manufacturing of buses and a small and middle class (length 9.7 m). Buses are the most common plant in Russia, their annual output is over 10 thousand units, almost 80% of small buses in Russia.
PAZ-672
PAZ-3205
PAZ-3204
PAZ-3237 in Moscow
PAZ-4230 "Aurora" in Gatchina
PAZ-4234
A row of new PAZ school buses in the central square of Chisinau, Moldova
PAZ Vector 3 (right) and Vector 4 (left)
GAZ Vector Next
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