- Pavlovo Bus Factory
Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod is a manufacturer of
bus es inRussia , located in the city of
Pavlovo,Nizhny Novgorod Oblast .The building of the factory started in 1952, and in the same year the first buses PAZ-651 (based onGAZ-51 ) were produced. The government had a plan to produce 10,000 buses per year. In 1960, the production of new model PAZ-652 started. It was replaced by PAZ-672 in early 1968, and this bus had a large family of various modifications. 1989 saw a start of production of the new modernised model PAZ-3205.The small PAZ buses have long been used by Russian "fixed-route taxi" ("
marshrutka ") operators.Around the world
*One PAZ 672 came to
Chile between 1970-1971 with the installation of the soviet KPD factory of concrete blocks for prefabricated buildings, inQuilpué [http://galeria.chilebuses.cl/details.php?image_id=5188&sessionid=2h617h7idaq35hmjkh4ddllbi1] . This was one of the many symbols of the relation between the Soviet Union and the Unidad Popular government in Chile.External links
* [http://www.paz.nnov.ru/ JSC "Pavlovo Bus"]
Russian Automotive Makers
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