JSC "Kurgansky car factory» (™: KAvZ) - Russian manufacturer buses. Part of the GAZ Group. The company's headquarters is located in Kurgan, Russia.
KAVZ activity
The plant was founded in 1958 and traditionally specialized in the production of buses of small capacity (from 21 to 30 seats).In the 1990s, due to changes in the sectors of the national economy, including agriculture, consumer demand for small-capacity buses decreased. There was a need for the production of city buses in Russia large capacity.
Based on this, KAVZ began to create production capacity for the production of city buses.
In 1994 The plant produced 8 Ikarus-260 large-capacity city buses and 2 Ikarus-280 extra-large-capacity buses. In 1996 following the results of an international tender, 168 Ikarusov-283.10 were manufactured for the city of Yekaterinburg.
Currently, KAVZ specializes in the production of medium-capacity buses with a length of 8 to 10 meters.
The main types of KAVZ products:
- Small class buses on GAZ chassis (KAVZ-3976 and modifications)
- Small class buses on ZIL chassis (KAVZ-3244 and modifications)
- Middle class buses PAZ-4230 "Aurora".
OOO KAvZ is a subsidiary of OAO GAZ (100% share in the authorized capital). The functions of the sole executive body of this company are performed by the managing organization - LLC UK GAZ Group.
Story
Initially, since 1953, the plant was built in the system of the defense complex. On September 19, 1957, the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR was issued on the transfer of production of the PAZ-651 bus from the Pavlovsk Bus Plant to Kurgan and the organization of the production of hood-type KAvZ-651 buses based on the GAZ-51 car.
In 1986, SPTU-34 was opened at the plant to train workers.
In the 1990s, due to changes in the sectors of the national economy, including agriculture, consumer demand for small-capacity buses fell sharply, the main consumers of which were state farms, collective farms, state enterprises of sectoral ministries. A decline in production began: if in 1989 20 thousand buses were produced, then in 1994 - 4 thousand, in 1995 - 1186, in 1997 - 769 cars. The number of employees at KavZ: in 1968 - 1594 people, in 1970 - 2076 people, in 1980 - 3955 people, in 1990 - 4513 people, in 1999 - 3300 people. By 1993, the plant prepared and organized the production of a new family of buses with a wagon layout of an aggregate assembly with a capacity of 24 passengers. places, in the amount of 150-200 pcs. in year. It was here that in 1992 the first buses of the KAvZ-3275, KAvZ-32784, KAvZ-3278 wagon layout differed more high level comfort and meeting international safety requirements.
In order to meet the needs of the market for large-capacity buses, in 1998 technical services new models of buses are being developed on heavy-duty chassis ZIL-4331 - these are models of urban and commuter buses KAvZ-422910, 4229-01. Also great attention is given to the conquest of the market of shift buses. A model of the KAVZ-422990 bus is being developed on a ZIL all-wheel drive chassis with a 6 × 6 wheel arrangement. In addition, in 1998, KAVZ returned to the production of rotational vehicles on the URAL chassis, the first batch of which was released in 1981.
In the course of the strategy for bringing the enterprise out of a pre-bankruptcy state in 2001, the Kurgan Bus Plant developed a school bus that most fully meets the requirements of GOST for buses for transporting children. The first order for the supply of buses, within the framework of the "School Bus" program, KAVZ completed in 2001 in the amount of 55 pieces for the Yaroslavl region. In the two years since the start of the program, within the framework of the national project "Education", the Kurgan Bus Plant has manufactured and delivered about 3 thousand buses. school buses to all regions of the Russian Federation. This solution to the problem of transporting schoolchildren to countryside interested in neighboring states. Thus, the first school buses have already been delivered by the Kurgan Bus Plant to the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
March 14, 2006 Open Joint-Stock Company"Kurgan bus factory” (TIN 4501022299) ceased operations on the basis of the ruling of the arbitration court on the completion of bankruptcy proceedings.
KAVZ LLC
On June 19, 2003, KAVZ LLC (TIN 4501103580) was created, which became part of Oleg Deripaska's RusPromAvto holding, which breathed a second life into the plant. In 2005, in connection with the reorganization of RusPromAvto, KAVZ entered the Buses division of the GAZ group, which unites the main manufacturers of bus and automotive technology in Russia.
Entering the holding opened the prospect of industrial development of the enterprise for the plant. The management of the company made a strategic decision - the organization at the Kurgan Bus Plant of the production of buses of the middle class PAZ-4230 "Aurora". Since 2003 production different modifications of these buses was established at KavZ. Extended version This bus - PAZ-4238 "Aurora" began to be produced at the Kurgan Bus Plant in 2006, under the symbol KAvZ-4238. In 2008, due to the tightening of environmental standards, the KAvZ-4235 model was developed, which replaced the PAZ-4230 on the conveyor.
Kurgan Bus Plant is constantly expanding the geography of deliveries not only in Russia and the CIS countries, but also in far abroad countries. From 2009-2011 380 KAVZ buses were delivered to the Republic of Nicaragua, designed to upgrade the country's transport fleet.
In 2013, about 600 people worked at the plant, in 2014 - about 400 people
Today, the enterprise has all the resources to upgrade production: it is reconstructing, modernizing technological flows, purchasing latest equipment with numeric program management for processing pipe billets, a laser complex for cutting billets.
Modern lineup
At the end of 2007, with the discontinuation of the KAvZ-3976 family, the 50-year history of small class Kurgan bonneted buses on the chassis of GAZ trucks ended. Small-scale production of the half-bonneted bus KAvZ-3244, carried out by a subsidiary of Vika LTD LLC, was curtailed in 2007.
The KAvZ production program for 2009 consisted of rear-engined mid-size buses of the modernized Avrora family KAvZ-4235 and KAvZ-4238 for suburban and inter-district traffic, as well as the city low-floor midibus KAvZ-4239 on a Chinese chassis.
The model range of the plant includes buses of the middle class KAvZ-4235 and KAvZ-4238 "Aurora" in urban and suburban, school modification. In 2010, the Kurgan plant carried out the first stage of restyling basic models. The buses received a modified front mask, new engine, transmission, electrical equipment. In 2011, the plant started the second stage - the buses will get a new interior.
In 2011-2012 the binding of the Cummins engine of the environmental standard "Euro-4" to the model range of the plant was carried out.
History of bonnet buses KAVZ
The production of all bonnet buses KAVZ was discontinued at the end of 2007 in connection with the plans for the modernization of the enterprise and the transition to the production of fundamentally new products in the form of urban medium-sized low-floor buses model 4239, made on Chinese units (chassis and power point). Accordingly, the entire production line for the assembly of "bonnets" was "completely reconstructed" (handed over for scrap).
According to an article in the magazine "Autoreview - Trucks and Buses" for 2008 - the cost of the latest bonnet models of KAVZ at the time of production closure was from 525 thousand rubles, which put this bus out of competition with more expensive and lower-quality products Chinese car industry or containing Chinese components - at the same time, a cabover KavZ-4239 on a Chinese chassis was already estimated at 2.57 million rubles - the price of five bonneted buses.
In 1998-2007 affiliated undertaking KAvZa - Vika LTD LLC produced a small-class bus KAvZ-3244 on a standard chassis ZIL-5301BO with a capacity of 29 passengers (15 seats) with diesel engine MMZ D-245 with a capacity of 109 liters. With. turbocharged. On the extended ZIL-5301EO chassis, a modification of the KAVZ-32441 with a capacity of 19-22 passengers was also produced.
Crew buses KAVZ on the chassis "Plant named after Likhachev" and "Ural" (KAvZ-422990, KAvZ-422991 and KAvZ-42243) were produced limited series in 1996-2003, but during the restructuring, the enterprises were reduced as non-core products. The last "shift work" of KAvZ was in 2004 model 39766 on the all-wheel drive chassis GAZ-3308 "Sadko".
Director
- August 20, 1953 - 1961 Klinsky, Viktor Pavlovich
- June 12, 2004 - March 14, 2006 Soloviev Vadim Pavlovich (bankruptcy manager)
- September 27, 2005 - March 1, 2007 Kadylkin, Viktor Sergeevich
- Since February 2, 2010 LLC " Management Company"GAZ Group"
- 2007-2011 Shalaev, Oleg Viktorovich (managing director)
- Since 2011 Alsaraev, Alexander Viktorovich (managing director, until 2015 - acting managing director)
President of JSC "Kurgan Bus Plant"
- Antoshkin, Alexander Sergeevich, was killed on December 4, 2002. (OPG Lokomotiv).
Factory awards
- In 1973, an experimental batch of the city-type bus KAvZ-3100 on international exhibition"Autoservice-73" was awarded an Honorary Diploma.
- In 1982, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Kurgan Bus Plant, which had repeatedly taken 1st place among enterprises in its industry, was named after the 60th anniversary of the USSR. The bus KAVZ-685 M was awarded State Sign quality.
- In 1994, at the international Moscow exhibition "Motorshow-94", the KAVZ-3276 bus on the chassis of the MAN company, optimized by the German company Ernst Auwerter, was awarded the title of "Salon Stars".
- In 1995, thanks to the creative work of the designers and designers of the plant, the first Russian "camper" was created on the GAZ-3302 chassis. "Motohata" was a great success at the Moscow "Avtosalon-95" and was highly appreciated by the Minister of emergencies S. K. Shoigu and the president of the Swiss travel company - the customer of this model, Mr. Karl Eckstein.
- In 1998 received Diploma 100 the best goods Russia (KAvZ-3244), Moscow.
- In 1999 he received a Diploma for the best exhibit (KAvZ-32441) at the international exhibition-fair "TransSib-Expo", Kemerovo.
- In 1999, KAVZ received a diploma of the III degree and a bronze medal for the development of new types of buses at the Moscow exhibition “Moscow. Regions of Russia" (bus model KAvZ-3244 "Bychok")
- In 1999, the title of Laureate of the Youth Prize was awarded to the team of Vika LLC for the creation of the only social taxi in Russia for the disabled (KAvZ-3244 for the disabled).
- In 2002 he received the Diploma of the 1st degree and Golden medal(KAvZ-39765 "school") for the best exhibit, exhibition-fair "Expo-Siberia", Kemerovo.
- In 2010, a bus for transporting children was awarded the “100 Best Goods of Russia” badge.
- In 2011, the city low-floor bus was awarded the “100 Best Goods of Russia” badge.
Team Awards
- Order of Lenin - 2 people
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor - 16 people
Address
640008, Russian Federation, Kurgan region, Kurgan, st. Avtozavodskaya, 5 building 3
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- To His Majesty with a commission.- Here he is! - said Boris, who heard that Rostov needed his highness, instead of his majesty.
And he pointed out to him the Grand Duke, who, a hundred paces from them, in a helmet and in a cavalry guard coat, with his raised shoulders and furrowed eyebrows, was shouting something to an Austrian white and pale officer.
“Why, this is the Grand Duke, and I should go to the commander-in-chief or to the sovereign,” said Rostov and touched the horse.
- Count, Count! - shouted Berg, as animated as Boris, running up from the other side, - count, I was wounded in the right hand (he said, showing his hand, covered with blood, tied with a handkerchief) and remained at the front. Count, I hold a sword in my left hand: in our breed of von Berg, Count, all were knights.
Berg said something else, but Rostov, without listening to the end, had already gone on.
Having passed the guards and an empty gap, Rostov, in order not to fall back into the first line, as he fell under the attack of the cavalry guards, rode along the line of reserves, going far around the place where the hottest shooting and cannonade were heard. Suddenly, in front of him and behind our troops, in a place where he could not in any way suspect the enemy, he heard close gunfire.
"What could it be? thought Rostov. - Is the enemy in the rear of our troops? It can’t be, thought Rostov, and the horror of fear for himself and for the outcome of the whole battle suddenly came over him. “Whatever it is, though,” he thought, “there is nothing to go around now. I must look for the commander-in-chief here, and if everything is lost, then it is my business to die together with everyone.
The bad feeling that suddenly came over Rostov was confirmed more and more, the farther he drove into the space occupied by crowds of heterogeneous troops, located outside the village of Prats.
- What's happened? What's happened? Who are they shooting at? Who is shooting? Rostov asked, leveling with the Russian and Austrian soldiers, who fled in mixed crowds to cut across his roads.
"The devil knows?" Beat everyone! Get lost everything! - Answered him in Russian, German and Czech crowds fleeing and not understanding exactly the same as he did what was happening here.
- Beat the Germans! one shouted.
- And the devil take them, - traitors.
- Zum Henker diese Ruesen ... [To hell with these Russians ...] - the German grumbled something.
Several wounded were walking along the road. Curses, screams, groans merged into one common rumble. The shooting died down and, as Rostov later found out, Russian and Austrian soldiers were shooting at each other.
"My God! what is it? thought Rostov. “And here, where at any moment the sovereign can see them… But no, it’s true, these are just a few scoundrels. This will pass, this is not it, this cannot be, he thought. “Just hurry, hurry through them!”
The thought of defeat and flight could not enter Rostov's head. Although he had seen French guns and troops precisely on the Pracen mountain, on the very one where he was ordered to look for the commander-in-chief, he could not and did not want to believe this.
Near the village of Pratsa, Rostov was ordered to look for Kutuzov and the sovereign. But not only were they not here, but there was not a single commander, but there were heterogeneous crowds of disordered troops.
He urged on his already tired horse in order to quickly pass these crowds, but the farther he moved, the more upset the crowds became. By high road, on which he left, carriages, carriages of all kinds, Russian and Austrian soldiers, of all branches of the military, wounded and unwounded, crowded. All this buzzed and swarmed mixedly to the gloomy sound of flying cannonballs from the French batteries placed on the Pracen Heights.
- Where is the Emperor? where is Kutuzov? - Rostov asked everyone he could stop, and could not get an answer from anyone.
Finally, grabbing the soldier by the collar, he forced him to answer himself.
- E! Brother! Everyone has been there for a long time, forward fled! - the soldier said to Rostov, laughing at something and breaking free.
Leaving this soldier, who was obviously drunk, Rostov stopped the horse of the batman or the caretaker of an important person and began to question him. The batman announced to Rostov that an hour ago the sovereign had been driven at full speed in a carriage along this very road, and that the sovereign was dangerously wounded.
“It can’t be,” said Rostov, “that’s right, someone else.”
“I saw it myself,” said the batman with a self-confident grin. - It’s time for me to know the sovereign: it seems how many times in Petersburg I saw it like that. Pale, pale, sitting in a carriage. As soon as he let the four blacks, my fathers, he thundered past us: it seems time to know both the royal horses and Ilya Ivanovich; it seems that the coachman does not travel with another, like with Tsar Ilya.
Rostov let his horse go and wanted to go on. A wounded officer walking by turned to him.
- Whom do you need? the officer asked. - Commander-in-Chief? So he was killed with a cannonball, he was killed in the chest with our regiment.
“Not killed, wounded,” another officer corrected.
- Yes, who? Kutuzov? Rostov asked.
- Not Kutuzov, but how do you put it, - well, yes, everything is the same, not many are left alive. Go over there, over there, to that village, all the authorities have gathered there, - this officer said, pointing to the village of Gostieradek, and passed by.
Rostov rode at a pace, not knowing why and to whom he would now go. The sovereign is wounded, the battle is lost. It was impossible not to believe it now. Rostov was driving in the direction indicated to him and along which the tower and the church could be seen in the distance. Where was he in a hurry? What was he to say now to the sovereign or Kutuzov, even if they were alive and not wounded?
“Go along this road, your honor, and they’ll kill you right here,” the soldier shouted to him. - They'll kill you!
- ABOUT! what are you saying! said the other. – Where will he go? It's closer here.
Rostov thought about it and went exactly in the direction where he was told that they would kill him.
“Now it doesn’t matter: if the sovereign is wounded, can I really take care of myself?” he thought. He drove into the space where most of the people who fled from Pracen died. The French had not yet occupied this place, and the Russians, those who were alive or wounded, had long since left it. On the field, like shocks on a good arable land, there were ten people, fifteen killed, wounded on every tithe of the place. The wounded crawled down in twos, threes together, and unpleasant, sometimes feigned, as it seemed to Rostov, their cries and groans were heard. Rostov trotted his horse so as not to see all these suffering people, and he became afraid. He was afraid not for his life, but for the courage he needed and which, he knew, would not withstand the sight of these unfortunates.
The French, who had stopped shooting at this field, littered with the dead and wounded, because there was no longer anyone alive on it, saw the adjutant riding on it, pointed a gun at him and threw several cores. The feeling of these whistling, terrible sounds and the surrounding dead merged for Rostov into one impression of horror and self-pity. He remembered his mother's last letter. “What would she feel,” he thought, “if she could see me here now, on this field and with guns aimed at me.”
In the village of Gostieradeke there were, although confused, but in greater order, Russian troops marching away from the battlefield. French cannonballs were no longer reaching here, and the sounds of firing seemed far away. Here everyone already clearly saw and said that the battle was lost. To whom Rostov turned, no one could tell him where the sovereign was, or where Kutuzov was. Some said that the rumor about the wound of the sovereign was true, others said that it was not, and explained this false rumor that spread by the fact that, indeed, in the sovereign’s carriage, the pale and frightened Chief Marshal Count Tolstoy galloped back from the battlefield, who left with others in the emperor’s retinue on the battlefield. One officer told Rostov that behind the village, to the left, he saw someone from the higher authorities, and Rostov went there, no longer hoping to find anyone, but only to clear his conscience before himself. Having traveled about three versts and passing the last Russian troops, near a garden dug in by a ditch, Rostov saw two horsemen standing opposite the ditch. One, with a white sultan on his hat, seemed familiar to Rostov for some reason; another, an unfamiliar rider, on a beautiful red horse (this horse seemed familiar to Rostov) rode up to the ditch, pushed the horse with his spurs and, releasing the reins, easily jumped over the ditch of the garden. Only the earth crumbled from the embankment from the hind hooves of the horse. Turning his horse sharply, he again jumped back over the ditch and respectfully addressed the rider with the white sultan, apparently suggesting that he do the same. The horseman, whose figure seemed familiar to Rostov and for some reason involuntarily attracted his attention, made a negative gesture with his head and hand, and by this gesture Rostov instantly recognized his mourned, adored sovereign.
"But it couldn't be him, alone in the middle of this empty field," thought Rostov. At this time, Alexander turned his head, and Rostov saw his favorite features so vividly engraved in his memory. The sovereign was pale, his cheeks were sunken and his eyes were sunken; but all the more charm, meekness was in his features. Rostov was happy, convinced that the rumor about the wound of the sovereign was unfair. He was happy to see him. He knew that he could, even had to directly address him and convey what he was ordered to convey from Dolgorukov.
But just as a young man in love trembles and trembles, not daring to say what he dreams of at night, and looks around frightened, looking for help or an opportunity to delay and escape when the desired minute has come, and he is standing alone with her, so Rostov now, having reached that What he wanted more than anything in the world, did not know how to approach the sovereign, and he had thousands of reasons why it was inconvenient, indecent and impossible.
"How! I seem to be glad of the opportunity to take advantage of the fact that he is alone and in despondency. An unknown face may seem unpleasant and hard to him at this moment of sadness; then, what can I say to him now, when just looking at him my heart stops and my mouth dries up? Not a single one of those innumerable speeches that he, addressing the sovereign, composed in his imagination, now occurred to him. Those speeches were for the most part kept under completely different conditions, those were spoken for the most part at the moment of victories and triumphs, and mainly on the deathbed from the wounds received, while the sovereign thanked him for his heroic deeds, and he, dying, expressed his love confirmed in deeds. my.
“Then, what am I going to ask the sovereign about his orders to the right flank, when it is now 4 o'clock in the evening, and the battle is lost? No, I definitely shouldn't drive up to him. Should not disturb his reverie. It’s better to die a thousand times than to get a bad look, a bad opinion from him, ”decided Rostov and drove away with sadness and despair in his heart, constantly looking back at the sovereign, who was still in the same position of indecision.
While Rostov was making these considerations and sadly driving away from the sovereign, Captain von Toll accidentally ran into the same place and, seeing the sovereign, drove straight up to him, offered him his services and helped him cross the ditch on foot. The sovereign, wanting to rest and feeling unwell, sat down under an apple tree, and Toll stopped beside him. Rostov from afar, with envy and remorse, saw von Tol say something to the sovereign for a long time and with fervor, as the sovereign, apparently crying, closed his eyes with his hand and shook hands with Tolya.
"And it could be me in his place?" Rostov thought to himself, and, barely holding back tears of regret for the fate of the sovereign, he drove on in complete despair, not knowing where and why he was now going.
His despair was all the greater because he felt that his own weakness was the cause of his grief.
He could ... not only could, but he had to drive up to the sovereign. And this was the only opportunity to show the sovereign his devotion. And he didn't use it... "What have I done?" he thought. And he turned his horse and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor; but there was no one behind the ditch. Only wagons and carriages were driving. From one furman, Rostov learned that the Kutuzovsky headquarters was located nearby in the village where the carts were going. Rostov followed them.
Ahead of him was the bereytor Kutuzova, leading horses in blankets. Behind the bereytor was a wagon, and behind the wagon was an old yard man, in a cap, a sheepskin coat, and with crooked legs.
- Titus, oh Titus! - said the berator.
- What? the old man replied absentmindedly.
- Titus! Start threshing.
- Oh, fool, ugh! - Angrily spitting, said the old man. Several minutes of silent movement passed, and the same joke was repeated again.
At five o'clock in the evening the battle was lost on all points. More than a hundred guns were already in the hands of the French.
Przhebyshevsky and his corps laid down their arms. The other columns, having lost about half their men, retreated in disorganized, mixed crowds.
The remnants of the troops of Langeron and Dokhturov, mixed up, crowded around the ponds on the dams and banks near the village of Augusta.
At 6 o'clock, only at the Augusta dam, the hot cannonade of some Frenchmen could still be heard, who had built numerous batteries on the descent of the Pracen Heights and were beating at our retreating troops.
In the rearguard, Dokhturov and others, gathering battalions, fired back from the French cavalry pursuing ours. It was starting to get dark. On the narrow dam of Augusta, on which for so many years an old miller with fishing rods sat peacefully in a cap, while his grandson, rolling up his shirt sleeves, sorted through a silver quivering fish in a watering can; on this dam, over which for so many years the Moravians peacefully passed on their twin wagons loaded with wheat, in shaggy hats and blue jackets, and, dusty with flour, with white wagons left along the same dam - on this narrow dam now between wagons and cannons, people disfigured by the fear of death crowded under the horses and between the wheels, crushing each other, dying, stepping over the dying and killing each other, just to be accurate after walking a few steps. also killed.
Every ten seconds, pumping air, a cannonball slapped or a grenade exploded in the middle of this dense crowd, killing and spattering with blood those who stood close. Dolokhov, wounded in the hand, on foot with a dozen soldiers of his company (he was already an officer) and his regimental commander, on horseback, were the remnants of the entire regiment. Drawn by the crowd, they squeezed into the entrance to the dam and, squeezed from all sides, stopped because a horse fell in front under a cannon, and the crowd pulled it out. One shot killed someone behind them, the other hit in front and spattered Dolokhov's blood. The crowd advanced desperately, shrank, moved a few paces, and stopped again.
Walk these hundred steps, and, probably, saved; stand another two minutes, and probably died, everyone thought. Dolokhov, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, rushed to the edge of the dam, knocking down two soldiers, and fled to the slippery ice that covered the pond.
“Turn around,” he shouted, bouncing on the ice that crackled beneath him, “turn around!” he shouted at the gun. - Keep! ...
The ice held it, but it bent and cracked, and it was obvious that not only under a gun or a crowd of people, but under him alone, he was about to collapse. They looked at him and pressed close to the shore, not yet daring to set foot on the ice. The regimental commander, who was standing on horseback at the entrance, raised his hand and opened his mouth, addressing Dolokhov. Suddenly one of the cannonballs whistled so low over the crowd that everyone bent down. Something flopped into the wet, and the general fell with his horse into a pool of blood. No one looked at the general, did not think to pick him up.
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The history of the Kurgan Bus Plant actually begins in 1958, when the first bus with a bonnet layout was produced - KAvZ 651. It was a model designed on an extended GAZ 51A truck chassis. In total, 508 copies were produced in the first year of production, in 1959 - 1511, and in 1960 3434 buses left the factory gates. During the first 5 years, KAvZ reaches a design capacity of 5,000 vehicles per year. By 1967, the plant managed to build about 50 thousand buses. In the same year, a prototype service KAvZ 685 was produced, based on the GAZ 53 chassis. But mass production models began only in 1971 after lengthy tests.
In 1983, KAvZ mastered the production of modernized buses, model 685M, built on the GAZ 53-12-1040 platform. Externally, the model almost completely repeated its predecessor, however, since 1984, the recognizable rectangular shape. This, in fact, was the most serious difference between the updated KAvZ 685M and the previously produced 685th model. In 1986, modernized buses were released, which received the identifier 3270. A distinctive external feature KAvZ 3270 is a characteristic roof transition in the area windshield where wiper mechanisms were installed, as well as an information plate with route data. In addition, the brackets of the rear-view mirrors have undergone changes, and 2 air vents have appeared on the roof. In 1989, the plant in Kurgan began to produce new model 3976.
In the 1990s, a decline in production began at KAvZ. After bankruptcy in 2003, the plant was bought out by the RusPromAvto holding, which in 2005 became part of the GAZ group of companies. The history of KAvZ buses, which used the truck chassis of the Gorky Automobile Plant, ended in 2007 with the removal of model 3976 from the assembly line. from their predecessors. In 2014, the plant started production of updated environmentally friendly gas-powered models KAVZ-4238 CNG and KAVZ-4270 CNG. Currently, the company produces buses for operation in urban, suburban and intercity areas. KAVZ became the first plant to develop a school bus that meets all state standards.
The Kurgan Bus Plant manufactured the KAVZ-4238-72 bus with an engine running on compressed natural gas CNG. The machine will be shown at the exhibition commercial vehicles”, which will be held from 9 to 14 September at the Moscow Crocus Expo.
This is the second bus of this model that has come off the assembly line of KAVZ. The prototype, which was made in the winter, has passed the factory and is undergoing certification tests.
KAVZ-4238 CNG manufactured by the Kurgan Bus Plant continues the model range of methane-powered equipment of the GAZ Group, which the company currently operates in. This modification of the middle class bus is designed to work on suburban and intercity routes. The machine is completed gas engine Cummins environmental standard "Euro-5", mechanical box ZF gears. Gas fuel allows you to provide a cruising range of the car up to 530 km.
The bus has many innovative design solutions. KAVZ-4238 CNG has an independent front air suspension, pneumatic rear suspension, front disc brakes. As an auxiliary brake system installed magnetic-dynamic retarder (retarder) company VOITH. Also, KAVZ-4238 CNG is equipped with an integral type steering mechanism, a GLONAS satellite navigation system, and a digital tachograph.
Particular attention is paid to the safety of passengers. The bus is equipped with an automatic fire extinguishing system, rear-view and interior cameras. All gas equipment installed on the bus is certified to meet international safety requirements. KAVZ-4238-72 complies with environmental EURO standard 5. With high environmental performance, the bus has effective economic indicators: reduced operating costs due to low cost gas fuel, high balanced resource of the body and the power unit.
TV and DVD, audio systems, comfortable seats with reclining backrests and tables ensure the comfort of passengers during long journeys.
Gas KAVZ-4238 is planned to be certified and a pilot batch produced before the end of this year.
In the Urals District, there are many complexes of various kinds. Not last place the list of industries is occupied by engineering enterprises, in particular, car factories. The autocomplex of this direction in the region operates several; one of the most famous among them is the Kurgan bus plant "KAvZ".
This enterprise, which is part of the GAZ Group, has been operating since 1958. A year earlier, an order was received to form the production of buses in Kurgan. Thus, the production of the PAZ-61 model was transferred from the Pavlovsk Automobile Plant. From that time until 2007, the Kurgan bus complex produced low-capacity passenger bonneted vehicles on the GAZ chassis.
In 2007, the production of hooded buses was discontinued; The decision was made in connection with the transition of the enterprise to new level. So the Kurgan Bus Plant (KAvZ) began to produce low-floor medium-sized models for intracity passenger traffic. Currently, the auto complex operates in the field of production of buses with a length of 8 to 10 meters for urban, intercity and suburban passenger transportation.
The Kurgan Bus Plant, whose website can be found on the Internet, is currently a powerful production complex that is constantly expanding its product range. The models produced by the Kurgan bus complex are supplied not only to the cities of Russia, but also to foreign countries.
Kurgan bus plant "KAvZ": products
Currently, the product range of the KAvZ enterprise consists of the following types of products:
- small class models based on the GAZ chassis;
- small class options based on the ZIL chassis;
- middle class buses.
One of the main activities of the enterprise "KAvZ" is the production of school buses. The enterprise became the first complex in Russia that developed a bus for transporting schoolchildren in accordance with all GOST standards.
