PJSC "Chernihiv Automotive Plant" ( uk, Чернігівський автозавод) is a private (closed) Ukrainian manufacturer of

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es located in

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

, owned by parent company Etalon Corporation.

History

The plant was founded in 2003 in at the plant of "ChernihivAvtoDetal" (Chernihiv Factory Driveshafts), which in addition to the principal product from the late 1990s was one of the largest collector of cars from

Gorky Automobile Plant GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (russian: ГАЗ or Го́рьковский автомоби́льный заво́д, , Gorky Automobile Plant) is a Russian automotive manufacturer located in Nizhny Novgorod, formerly known as Gorky (Го� ...

in Ukraine, part of the Etalon Corporation. Manufacturing driveshafts also been retained by the reorganized company, dubbed LLC "Ukrainian Gimbal". In 2003, with the first came off the assembly line bus BAZ-2215 "Dolphin". With increasing demands on the buses BAZ-A079, part of the production was moved to

from Boryspil Bus Factory, also included in the corporation Etalon Corporation. In 2007, they put on the conveyor the new bus ChAZ-A074 with chassis from FAW. In 2008 at the factory started production of buses ChAZ-A08310. Also, in 2011, the plant produced with

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ian company "

Belkommunmash OJSC "Holding Management Company "Belkommunmash" ( be, ААТ "Кіруючая кампанія холдынгу «Белкамунмаш», Belkamunmash), is a Belarusian manufacturer of electric public transport vehicles. The enterprise was bas ...

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BKM 321, which as of August 24, 2011 runs on Chernihiv trolleybus route number 4.

Products

As of 2021 at the factory produced the following models of buses and trolley buses: * BAZ-2215 "Dolphin" - small class

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; * BAZ-3215 "Dolphin Maxi" - larger bus based on BAZ-2215 (released 2 copies); * BAZ-A079
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; * ChAZ-A074
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; * ChAZ-A08310 - large class

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Photos
; * BKM/ChAZ-321 - trolleybus made in part with

; * Etalon T12110 "Barvinok" - trolleybus; * Etalon A12210 "Astra" - city bus based on Etalon T12110; * Etalon A08432 "Tulip" - city bus.

Gallery

External links

official corporate website of JSC "Chernihiv car"

On ChAZ released 2,000 bus and put into operation a new plant

«keyway" in Chernihiv

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120321161406/http://www.autocentre.ua/news/Komavto/38985.html In Chernihiv collected the first trolley bus! {{Ukrainian trolleybuses Companies based in Chernihiv Bus manufacturers of Ukraine Ukrainian companies established in 2003