1948 establishments in Belarus

thumb|Mining dump truck BelAZ-7547 thumb|1971 USSR postage stamp depicting BelAZ 540 BelAZ (, ) is a Belarusian automobile plant and one of the world's largest manufacturers of large and especially large dump trucks, as well as other heavy transport equipment for the mining and construction industries.

university in Minsk, Belarus

Mogilvskiy Avtomobilny Zavod imeni S. M. Kirova, abbreviated MoAZ, (/), is an automotive and earth-moving equipment manufacturer located in the city of Mogilev, Belarus. MoAZ has been a subsidiary of BelAZ since 2006. In 1958 MoAZ was named in honor of Sergey Kirov, an early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.