Pavlovo Bus Factory

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

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.

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.^[2]

History

The factory has its origins in the ZATI automobile and tractor tool plant, established in Pavlovo in 1932.^[3] 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.