Pavlovo Bus Factory

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File:Logo manufacturer of buses in Russia PAZ.png

Former company brand

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PAZ buses are the workhorses of public transportation in Nizhny Novgorod

Pavlovo Bus Factory (Template:Langx, formerly {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod or PAZ) is a manufacturer of buses in Russia, in the city of Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. PAZ is a subsidiary of Russian Buses which is a division of GAZ. The production of buses since 2005 has been carried out by PAZ, a 100% subsidiary of PAO Pavlovsky Avtobus.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Pavlovo Bus Factory specializes in designing and manufacturing buses of the small/medium class (length 9.7 m). Buses are the most common plant in Russia, their annual output is over 10,000 units, almost 80% of small buses in Russia. The small PAZ buses have long been used by Russian "fixed-route taxi" (marshrutka) operators.

Starting in 2015, the GAZ Group introduced a single brand for all its bus manufacturing subsidiaries, and newly manufactured vehicles now feature the deer badge of the GAZ company.<ref name="newbadge">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

The factory has its origins in the ZATI automobile and tractor tool plant, established in Pavlovo in 1932.<ref name="istoriya">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The building of the factory started in 1952, and in the same year the first PAZ-651 long-hood buses (based on the GAZ-51 general-purpose lorry) were produced. The government had a plan to produce 10,000 buses per year. In 1960, the production of new PAZ-652 forward control model on the same chassis started. It was replaced by the outwardly similar PAZ-672 (based on the GAZ-53 lorry) in early 1968, and this bus had a large family of various modifications. 1989 saw a start of production of the new PAZ-3205 model having basically the same chassis but a completely new body.

Models

Current

• PAZ-3205 (1989–present)
• PAZ-3206 (1995–present)
• PAZ-3237 "Luzhok" (2002–present)
• PAZ-4234 (2003–present)
• PAZ-3203 (2006–present)
• PAZ-3204 (2006–present)
• PAZ Vector 4 (2012–present)
• PAZ Vector 3 (2015–present)
• GAZ Vector Next (2016–present)

Former

• PAZ-651 (1950-1961, based on GAZ-51I)
  • PAZ-651A (1961-1971)
• PAZ-652 (1958-1968)
• PAZ-653 (1950–1956, ambulance version of PAZ-651)
• PAZ-655 (1954–?, armored van version of PAZ-651)
• PAZ-657 (1954–1958, bread van version of PAZ-651)
• PAZ-661 (1954–1956, clothing van version of PAZ-651)
  • PAZ-661B
• PAZ-672 (1967-1989)
• PAZ-3201 (1972-1989, based on GAZ-66)
• PAZ-5272 (1999-2003)
• PAZ-4230 Aurora (2001-2002, production moved to KAvZ)
• PAZ-4238 Aurora (2001-2002, production moved to KAvZ)
• PAZ Real (2007-2009)

Panel vans

• PAZ-657 (1954–1958, based on GAZ-51)
• PAZ-659

Trailers

• PAZ-658
• PAZ-740
• PAZ-742
• PAZ-743
• PAZ-744
• PAZ-746
• PAZ-750

Prototypes

• PAZ-665 (1964)
• PAZ-671 (1958, based on GAZ-52)
  • PAZ-671A (1958, based on GAZ-53)
  • PAZ-671G (based on GAZ-52A)
• PAZ-675 (1960, based on GAZ-52)
• PAZ-985 (1960)
• PAZ-3202 (1973)
• PAZ-3203 (1972)
• PAZ-3204 (1974)

Around the world

• One PAZ-672 came to Chile between 1970 and 1971 with the installation of the soviet KPD factory of concrete blocks for prefabricated buildings, in Quilpué [1]. This was one of the many symbols of the relation between the Soviet Union and the Unidad Popular government in Chile.

Gallery

• ГЗА-651 Мосгортранс.JPG

  PAZ-651

• PAZ-672 at Bronevoy Pereulok 12 in Minsk 24 August 2014.JPG

  PAZ-672

• PAZik.JPG

  PAZ-672 Emergency Gas Service Command Bus in Moscow

• PAZ-3205 (4713534105).jpg

  PAZ-3205

• ПАЗ-3204 в Хабаровске.JPG

  PAZ-3204

• ПАЗ-3237-2.JPG

  PAZ-3237 in Moscow

• PAZ-4230.jpg

  PAZ-4230 "Aurora" in Gatchina

• ПАЗ-4234 в Мичуринске.JPG

  PAZ-4234

• PAZ school buses Chisinau 02.jpg

  A row of new PAZ school buses in the central square of Chisinau, Moldova

• GAZ Vector 3 and PAZ Vector buses.jpg

  PAZ Vector 3 (right) and Vector 4 (left)

References

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External links

• JSC "Pavlovo Bus"