MoAZ
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Company type | JSC |
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Industry | Automotive |
Founded | 1948 |
Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide, CIS |
Products | Dump trucks Heavy equipment Goods wagons |
Parent | BelAZ ![]() |
Website | MoAZ official page |
MoAZ an initialism for Mogilev Automobile Plant (Belarusian: Магілёўскі аўтамабільны завод (МаАЗ)/Russian: Могилевский автомобильный завод (MoA3)), officially Mogilev Automobile Plant. SM Kirov is an automotive and earth-moving equipment manufacturer in the city of Mogilev, Belarus. MoAZ is a subsidiary of BelAZ since 2006. In 1958 MoAZ was named in honor of Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.
History
The company was founded in 1935 as Workshop. In 1941 the plant was evacuated to Kuibyshev, where he mastered the production of engines for the attack aircraft IL-2.[1]
After World War II the plant was returned to Mogilev and produced locomotives, steam-powered machinery, overhead cranes and oil trucks on chassis GAZ-51. In 1958 the factory conveyor technology named S. Kirov Mintyazhmasha USSR in Mogilev was transferred to the production of single-axle tractor MAZ-529, developed at the Minsk Automobile Plant.[2] In 1960 MoAZ and Minsk Automobile Plant was transferred a group of designers, which became the basis of the technical services of the plant. Since that time MoAZ became one of the largest manufacturers of earth-moving equipment in the USSR.
In 2006 the factory became a branch of JSC "BelAZ". Since 2012 - the branch of "BelAZ" - managing company "BelAZ-Holding". The company mainly works on exports - more than 85% of production going to CIS member states .
Current products
- Self-propelled scrapers (MoAZ-6014);
- loaders (MoAZ-40484);
- dump (MoAZ-7505, MoAZ-7529);
- underground train (MoAZ-7405-9586);[3]
- trucks (MoAZ-049, MoAZ-060, MoAZ-070);
- motorized rollers (MoAZ-6442-9890);
- wheeled bulldozers (MoAZ-40486, MoAZ-40489);
- electric cars (EC-1.00);
- Tractors (MoAZ-49011);
- Airdrome trucks (MoAZ-7915);
- engineering tractors for the Belarus Army.[4]
References
External links
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- Truck manufacturers of the Soviet Union
- BelAZ
- Rolling stock manufacturers
- Tractor manufacturers of Belarus
- Truck manufacturers of Belarus
- Manufacturing companies established in 1935
- Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1948
- 1948 establishments in Belarus
- 1948 establishments in the Soviet Union
- Mogilev
- Minsk Automobile Plant vehicles
- Belarusian brands
- Soviet brands