Mogilvskiy Avtomobilny Zavod imeni S. M. Kirova, abbreviated MoAZ, ( be, Магілёўскі аўтамабільны завод (МаАЗ)/russian: Могилевский автомобильный завод имени С. М. Кирова (MoA3)), is an automotive and earth-moving equipment manufacturer located in the city of

Mogilev Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

. MoAZ has been a subsidiary of

BelAZ BelAZ ( be, Беларускі аўтамабільны завод, translit=Belaruski autamabilny zavod, lit=Belarusian Automobile Plant, russian: Белорусский автомобильный завод or БелАЗ) is a Belarusian aut ...

since 2006. In 1958 MoAZ was named in honor of

Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...

, an early Bolshevik leader in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

History

The company was founded in 1935 as Workshop. In 1941 the plant was evacuated to Kuibyshev, where engines for the attack aircraft

IL-2 The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War. The word ''shturmovík'' ( Cyrillic: штурмовик), the generic Russian term ...

were produced.Могилевский автомобильный завод имени С. М. Кирова
/ref> After World War II the plant was returned to Mogilev and produced locomotives, steam-powered machinery, overhead cranes, and tank lorries based on

GAZ-51 The GAZ-51 (nickname ''Gazon'') was a Soviet truck manufactured by GAZ. Its first prototypes were produced before the end of World War II and has been influenced by Studebaker US6. The mass production started in 1946. A 2.5 ton 4×2 standard var ...

lorries. In 1958 the factory started the production of the single-axle

MAZ-529 The MAZ-529 (МАЗ-529) is a uniaxial tractor designed by the Soviet vehicle manufacturer ''Minsky Automobilny Zavod'' (MAZ), which started production in 1959. From 1958, production of this type was relocated to MoAZ Mogilvskiy Avtomobilny Za ...

, developed by the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ).Одноосный тягач МАЗ-529.
/ref> In 2006 the factory became a branch of JSC "

", which has been a branch of "BelAZ-Holding" since 2012. Most MoAZ vehicles are exported; more than 85% of the produced vehicles are sold in

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member states.

Current products

MOAZ-6014 Scraper in Technical museum Togliatti

* Self-propelled scrapers (MoAZ-6014); * Loaders (MoAZ-40484); * Dump trucks (MoAZ-7505, MoAZ-7529); * Underground trains (MoAZ-7405-9586);Могилевский автомобильный завод для горнодобывающей промышленности
// «Горная Промышленность» № 2 2003. * Lorries (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.Кочнев Е. Секретные автомобили Советской Армии / Военные одноосные и двухосные тягачи
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References

External links

MoAZ home page (Belarusian)BelAZ's MoAZ home page (Russian)
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The fullest technical information. 3D models BELAZ
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