Ural Automotive Plant
UralAZ company logo.
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Native name
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ОАО Автомобильный завод «Урал» |
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Formerly called
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Уральский автомобильный завод имени Сталина |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1941 |
| Headquarters | Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia |
| Products | Automobiles |
| Revenue |
 RUB19.792 billion (2011) |
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RUB415 million (2011) |
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Number of employees
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13 497 (2007) |
| Parent | OJSC GAZ |
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Auditor: PLC FinExpertiza (2007) |
For the defunct "Ural Automobiles and Motors" see Amur (company)
The Urals Automotive Plant, Open Stock Company, (Russian: Ура́льский автомоби́льный заво́д, УралАЗ; Uralskiy Avtomobilnyi Zavod, UralAZ) is a major Russian manufacturer of off-road trucks under the Ural (Cyrillic: "Урал") brand and is part of the GAZ group. Located in the city of Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Ural Mountains, the plant was established in 1941 when the ZiS truck plant was evacuated from Moscow during World War II.
In the autumn of 1941 Soviet leaders decided to build a plant for the manufacture of military trucks named after Stalin : ZIS in Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals.
Since April 1942 the factory has produced engines and gearboxes. On July 8 1944 the first truck ZIS-5V was built under the brand UralZIS. The new factory became the Ural branch of ZIS UralZIS and was named after Joseph Stalin. At the end of the war the ZIS-5 was considered simple and robust, and thus remained in production for many years. In 1947 the factory started to manufacture newer models.
In 1946 the production version of the gas-21A UralZIS 2.5t began to be fabricated. The truck was produced under the brand UralZIS-352. In 1949 the 5th version of UralZIS was equipped with hydraulic brakes.
A new model, the UralZIS-355, was released in 1956. However, in 1958 the new version of the ZIS-5 was made available for deliveries to Kazakhstan and remained in production until October 16 1963 as an AMO-3 bypass Fiat.
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