MoAZ

MoAZ, Mogilev Automobile Plant
MoA3, Могилевский автомобильный завод
JSC
Industry Automotive
Founded 1948
Headquarters Mogilev, Belarus
Area served
 Worldwide, CIS
Products Dump trucks
Heavy equipment
Goods wagons
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

MOAZ-6014 Scraper in Togliatti Technical museum.

References

  1. ↑ Могилевский автомобильный завод имени С. М. Кирова
  2. ↑ Одноосный тягач МАЗ-529.
  3. ↑ Могилевский автомобильный завод для горнодобывающей промышленности // «Горная Промышленность» № 2 2003.
  4. ↑ Кочнев Е. Секретные автомобили Советской Армии / Военные одноосные и двухосные тягачи
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