Pavlovo Bus Factory

For other meaning of PAZ see PAZ (disambiguation).

Pavlovo Bus Factory (Russian: Павловский автобус, formerly Па́вловский авто́бусный заво́д, 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.^[2]

Pavlovo Bus Factory

Chimney of Pavlovo bus factory
Company type	Public company
Traded as	MCX: PAZA
Industry	Automotive, ISIC: 2910
Founded	1932 (1932)
Headquarters	Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , Russia
Key people	Andrei Vladimirovich Vasiliev
Products	Buses
Revenue	$256 million[1] (2017)
Operating income	$7.54 million[1] (2017)
Net income	$12.4 million[1] (2017)
Total assets	$339 million[1] (2017)
Total equity	$102 million[1] (2017)
Parent	GAZ Group Bus Division
Website	www.paz-bus.ru

Former company brand

PAZ buses are the workhorses of public transportation in Nizhny Novgorod

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.^[3]

History

The factory has its origins in the ZATI automobile and tractor tool plant, established in Pavlovo in 1932.^[4] 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 . This was one of the many symbols of the relation between the Soviet Union and the Unidad Popular government in Chile.

Gallery

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  PAZ-651
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  PAZ-672
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  PAZ-672 Emergency Gas Service Command Bus in Moscow
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  PAZ-3205
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  PAZ-3204
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  PAZ-3237 in Moscow
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  PAZ-4230 "Aurora" in Gatchina
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  PAZ-4234
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  A row of new PAZ school buses in the central square of Chisinau, Moldova
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  PAZ Vector 3 (right) and Vector 4 (left)