Lada West Togliatti ( rus, Лада Запад Тольятти, p=ˈladə ˈzapət tɐlʲˈjætʲ(ː)ɪ) is a Russian car manufacturer owned by

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between AvtoVAZ and

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History

Lada West Togliatti predecessor was

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created in early 2001 for producing the VAZ-2123 ( Niva II) off-road vehicle under the name Chevrolet Niva. Initially, the venture had three co-owners:

and

(GM) each owned 41.6% of the shares, and the remaining 16.8% belonged to the

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(EBRD). In 2012, the EBRD withdrew from the venture, selling its shares equally to partners. In December 2019, GM sold its stake to AvtoVAZ, making GM-AvtoVAZ a wholly owned subsidiary of the latter. The former venture kept the right to continue using the

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marque for a certain amount of time. On 15 April 2020, AvtoVAZ officially dropped the GM-AvtoVAZ name and re- incorporated the former venture as "JSC Lada West Togliatti". In July 2020, Lada West Togliatti stopped assembling Chevrolet-badged Nivas, adopting instead the Lada marque. In December 2020, Lada West Togliatti introduced the Niva Travel, a revised Niva. In July 2021, the Lada Travel production was transferred to the main AvtoVAZ's Tolyatti plant. AvtoVAZ CEO Nicolas Maure clarified that the Lada West Togliatti production would be "suspended" but the plant was to be neither closed nor sold.

Leadership

The first general director of Lada West Togliatti was Romuald Rytvinski who also hold the same position while it was a joint venture with GM. In December 2020, he was replaced by Yuri Skulsky, the then

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chief of the company.

References

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