KAvZ

KAvZ (Russian: Курганский автобусный завод (КАвЗ), romanized: Kurgansky Avtobusny Zavod, lit. 'Kurgan Bus Plant') is a bus manufacturer in Kurgan, KGN, Russia. The factory started producing buses in 1958, based on trucks from GAZ. During the 1990s, it assembled Ikarus buses for the Russian market. Now a subsidiary of GAZ, it specialises in producing small buses, in particular school buses.

KAvZ

Native name	ООО «Курганский автобусный завод»
Formerly	Курганский автобусный завод им. 60-летия Союза ССР
Type	Private limited company
Industry	Mechanical engineering
Founded	1958 (1958)
Headquarters	Kurgan, KGN , Russia
Key people	Alexander Viktorovich Alsarayev, acting managing director
Products	Middle range buses
Services	Bus manufacturing
Number of employees	circa 600 (2013)
Parent	GAZ Group Bus Division
Website	bus.ru

KAvZ-4238

KAvZ-4235

Old KAVZ buses

KAvZ is a subsidiary of Russian Buses which is a subsidiary of GAZ Group. Starting in 2015, the GAZ Group has introduced a single brand for all its bus manufacturing subsidiaries, and newly manufactured vehicles now feature the deer badge of the GAZ company.[1]