Borisov Car Repair Plant

BARZ was created in 1945 on the basis of a car evacuation base. Its first products were repaired car trailers, and soon the plant began to overhaul GAZ-AA , ZIS-5 , Lend-Lease army trucks, and since 1950 - GAZ-51 trucks. Overhaul of GAZ-03-30 buses was mastered. In 1953, the plant mastered the repair of old and the production of new PAZ-651 (GZA-651) buses , which in Borisov received completely new wood-metal bodies that differed from Pavlovsk in the form of a full house. The production of these buses went under rather difficult conditions: due to the low height of the body shop of BARZ, bus bodies had to be assembled in the rented building of the Borisov Shipyard, remote from the factory. In 1954, work was underway to create, instead of the outdated GZA-651, a new wagon-type bus on the same chassis (GAZ-51). He was one of the first Soviet wagon buses on the GAZ chassis, but due to a lack of production capacity he did not go into series, and the production of the GZA-651 continued until 1970. In the late 1950s - early 1960s, the repair of RAF-251 buses was mastered. In 1963, BARZ was located in the new territory, after which it began to restore buses PAZ-652 , PAZ-653 and PAZ-659 . The plant was engaged in the repair of the above buses until the early 1980s. By 1965, BARZ had developed its own bus BZ-05 with a wood-metal body of the hood layout on the GAZ-53F chassis : these buses were intended for consumer services in the rural population and were mobile hairdressing salons and workshops. There were versions of the BZ-05 with ordinary passenger interiors. In the same year, the BZ-05 was launched into serial production, which lasted 3 years, for which, according to various sources, 300 to 500 buses were produced. Their place in the production was taken by grain vans KHA-2-57 . In the early 1970s, instead of KHA-2-57, they began to produce GZSA-892 bodies, whose output ranged from 50 to 150 units in different years. In 1974, a lot of school buses PAZ-651Sh were produced in Borisov and converted into school ones that underwent a major overhaul of PAZ-652B. They were one of the first school buses produced in the USSR. School buses BZ-06 and BZ-07Sh on the GAZ-52/53 chassis became the last machines of their own design. Their all-metal bodies externally strongly resembled KavZ-685 . These buses were produced in small batches until the end of the 1970s and became widespread only in Belarus. In the 1980s, BARZ was mainly engaged in the restoration of bodies for KavZ-685 and PAZ-672 , until the mid-1990s it carried out overhaul of PAZ, KavZ, LAZ buses, Gorky trucks, their units, and was engaged in the manufacture of van bodies.

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