Type Public company Industry Automotive, ISIC: 2910 Headquarters Russia Parent organizations GAZ Group, GAZ | Traded as MCX: PAZA Products Buses Founded 1932 | |
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Native name ОАО «Па́вловский авто́бус» Key people Andrei Vladimirovich Vasiliev Stock price PAZA (MCX) RUB 480.00 0.00 (0.00%)15 Mar, 6:26 PM GMT+3 - Disclaimer | ||
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.
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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.