Russian bus manufacturers

• 1929 - Yaroslavl Automobile Plant develops the production of bus chassis I-6 .
• 1933 - The Stalin Plant develops the production of a chassis for AMO-4 buses, the Gorky Automobile Plant - GAZ-03-30 buses.
• 1934 - Start of production of ZIS-8 buses.
• 1938 - the beginning of the production of ZIS-16 buses.
• 1948 - the beginning of the production of ZIS-154 buses.
• 1952 - Pavlovsky Bus Plant ( PAZ ) was commissioned.
• 1958 - Kurgan Bus Plant ( KavZ ) was put into operation.
• 1959 - the Likinsky Bus Plant ( LiAZ ) was commissioned - the first-born of the plant was the LiAZ-158 bus, transferred from ZIL .
• 1967 -
  • Start of production of LiAZ-677 buses .
  • start of production of PAZ-672 buses.
• 1986 - Start of production of LiAZ-5256 buses .
• 1989 - The beginning of the production of PAZ-3205 buses.
• 1994 -
  • Golitsynsky Bus Plant ( GolAZ ) was put into operation, which lasted until 2014 - the first-born of the plant was the GolAZ-AKA-6226 bus.
  • At TMZ , additional sorting of Ikarus-280.33 buses has begun.
  • at the YaAZ plant, LiAZ-677M buses began to be assembled.
  • the last LiAZ-677M bus came off the assembly line of the LiAZ plant.
• 1996 -
• began production of LiAZ-5256.25 buses with Caterpillar-3116 engines.
• At the YaAZ plant, the production of YaAZ-5267 buses was started, he did not go into the series.
• At TMZ , assembly of Ikarus-280.33M buses , 50% consisting of domestic sets, as well as Ikarus-435.17, began .
• The last LiAZ-677M bus came off the assembly line of the YaAZ plant.
• 1998 - the assembly of Ikarus-415.33 buses was launched at TMZ .
• 1999 - 2004 - Overcoming the crisis. Establishing the work of LiAZ , AMAZ , assembly of Scania buses. Bankruptcy of Ikarus .
• 2000 - Neftekamsk Bus Plant ( NefAZ ) was commissioned.
• 2002 - the beginning of the production of LiAZ-6212 buses .
• 2004 -
  • Start of production of LiAZ-5292.00 buses .
  • the experimental bus LiAZ-6213.00 was produced.
• 2005 - The production of more modern and technically advanced machines.
• 2007 - 2008 - the prototype LiAZ-6213.20 bus was produced, a year later their serial production was established.
• 2008 - 2010 - the prototype LiAZ-6213.21 bus was produced; two years later, their mass production was established.
• 2012 - 2013 - the prototype LiAZ-6213.22 bus was produced, a year later their serial production was launched.
• 2016 - start of production of LiAZ-6213.65-77 buses

Digital Model Classification

Until 1945, automobile factories in the USSR did not have a common model numbering system. In 1945, the first notation system was adopted, in which each plant was given a range of three-digit model numbers (except for GAZ, which had a range of 1-99). Bus manufacturers occupied the following ranges:

• 100-199 ZIL - models 118, 119, 127, 154, 155 and 158 were produced; production of model 158 transferred to LiAZ
• 652–674 GAS ; since 1950, PAZ and KavZ . Models were produced: 651 at all three plants, PAZ-652 and 672, KavZ-655, 657, 659 and 685.
• 675–694 LiAZ — models 158 (transmitted from ZIL), 676 (experimental) and 677 were produced.
• 695-699 LAZ - all range numbers were used.
• 975-999 RAF - models 975-980 and 982 were produced, as well as RAF-251 (from the range of the Novosibirsk Automobile Plant, reprofiled in 1949).

Some experimental bus models were not numbered according to the standard, for example: RAF-08 and RAF-10, ZiU-6 and ZiU-8.

In 1966, the industry standard OH 025270-66 was adopted , according to which all new models of cars, buses and trolleybuses began to be numbered. Nevertheless, some new models came out with numbers according to the old system: the ZIL-119 minibus in 1971, the ZiU-682 and 683 trolleybuses, and others. Many models continued to go out and receive modifications. Currently, the Dneprodzerzhinsky Bus Plant produces the LAZ-695N bus, numbered according to the old system ^[2] .

See the List of bus and trolley bus models according to OH 025270-66.

In the industry normal of 1966, model numbers have 4 digits, sometimes a fifth is added - the modification number. The second digit of number 2 means that it is a bus or a trolleybus (there are exceptions, for example, the experienced KavZ-3100 and the serial KavZ-3976). The first digit is the bus class in terms of capacity, determined by the overall length:

• 2 - especially small, up to 5 meters
• 3 - small, from 6 to 7.5 meters
• 4 - medium, from 8 to 9.5 meters
• 5 - large, from 10.5 to 11 meters
• 6 - especially large, over 11.5 meters

After the collapse of the USSR in Russia, bus models continue to be numbered according to OH 025270-66. In Belarus, MAZ and Belkommunmash abandoned this system. In Ukraine, for some time, new models were also assigned numbers according to the Soviet industry normal, and the numbers were occupied independently of Russia (for example, number 6205 was occupied by a LAZ bus and a ZiU trolleybus). Later a new system was adopted, according to which the models get an index from the letter ( A for buses and T for trolleybuses) and three digits. Despite this, the Kherson automobile assembly plant "ANTO-RUS" continues to number the models according to OH 025270-66.

Russian manufacturing companies (for 2019)

• Volgabus
• Buses GAZ LLC , Nizhny Novgorod
• OOO EvoBus Russland , Moscow
• Kurgan Bus Plant , Kurgan
• LiAZ , Likino-Dulyovo
• Buses OJSC NefAZ , Neftekamsk
• PKF Luidor LLC , Nizhny Novgorod
• Buses LLC ST Nizhny Novgorod , Nizhny Novgorod
• Pavlovsky bus , Pavlovo
• LLC Rodnikovsky Machine-Building Plant , Rodniki
• Samotlor-NN LLC , Nizhny Novgorod Region
• Buses NPP SemAR CJSC , Semenov
• Buses Scania-Peter LLC , St. Petersburg
• Sollers-Elabuga LLC , Elabuga
• Buses of Tushino-Avto CJSC , Moscow
• Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant , Ulyanovsk
• Buses OJSC AZ Ural , Miass
• Buses PKF Luidor LLC , Nizhny Novgorod Region

Liquidated manufacturing companies (termination date is indicated in parentheses)

• Buses AMO ZIL , Moscow (2012).
• Buses Olympus , Vologda (2017).
• Golitsyn Bus Plant , Golitsyno (2014).
• CJSC Michurinsky Bus , Michurinsk (2011).
• VAP Volzhanin LLC , Volzhsky (2008).
• LLC Rostov Bus Plant , Rostov-on-Don (2011).
• LLC Taganrog Automobile Plant , Taganrog (2014).

Classification by manufacturing companies

By class (length) distinguish

• Russian buses of a very small class (OM) up to 6 m long (GAZ, UAZ)
• Russian buses of small class (M) 6.1-8 m long (PAZ, KavZ, RZGA (Hyundai), ZIL, Rodnik, Vika)
• Russian buses of the middle class (C) 8.1-10 m long (Likinsky bus - LiAZ-4292 , PAZ, KavZ)
• Large-class Russian buses (B) 10.1-12 m long (Volgabus, Likinsky bus, NefAZ, Scania-Peter, RAM (Marco Polo))
• Russian buses of a particularly large class (OB) 12.1-18 m long (Likinsky bus)
• Russian special shift buses (CB) (Ural, NefAZ)

In 2010, 40.9 thousand buses were produced in Russia, in 2011 - 44.2 thousand, in 2012 - 58.6 thousand, in 2013 - 53.2 thousand, in 2014 - 44.0 thousand, in 2015 - 36.4 thousand. In January-November 2016, production increased compared to the same period in 2015 by 17.4%, amounting to 38.0 thousand units ^[3] .

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• A.A. Cherednikov. Buses: Device, maintenance, operation. - Transport, 1999. - ISBN 5-277-02131-0 .