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KAvZ
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KAvZ () 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.

Key facts

Company.name
KAvZ
Company.logo
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Company.native_name
ООО «Курганский автобусный завод»
Company.native_name_lang
ru
Company.former_name
Курганский автобусный завод им. 60-летия Союза ССР
Company.type
Private limited company
Company.industry
Mechanical engineering
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Company.successor
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Company.founder
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Company.hq_location_city
Kurgan, KGN
Company.hq_location_country
Russia
Company.area_served
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Company.key_people
Alexander Viktorovich Alsarayev, acting managing director

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
enterprise
Country
Russia
Headquarters
Kurgan
Parent organization
GAZ Group
Official website
bus.ru
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Commons category
KAvZ
inception
1958-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview

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KAvZ () 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KAvZ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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