Ukrainian Automobile Corporation JSC ( uk, Українська Автомобільна Корпорація), or UkrAVTO ( uk, УкрАВТО), is a

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manufacturing and service company, as well as Ukraine's largest automobile

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History

It was founded in 1969 as the ''Ukraine Motor Vehicles Maintenance Department'' - a reorganisation of diverse car manufacturing, parts, sales and maintenance agencies in the then

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. It was restructured after Ukraininan independence, then corporatized and fully privatised in 1995. In 2002, it took over the major Ukrainian automobile manufacturer ZAZ/

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, after the bankruptcy of

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. The resulting merged ZAZ division is the largest subsidiary of UkrAVTO. In 2005, it took over the Polish Daewoo subsidiary

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(FSO) which had been supplying it with car parts. UkrAVTO owns the largest network of manufacturing and assembling facilities, service stations and auto dealerships in Ukraine. It currently manufactures cars for

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(particularly models originally designed for

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) and assembles cars for

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. UkrAVTO formerly builds cars under its own name, particularly the

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and Tavria Nova models - lines it inherited from the

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. It also acts as Ukrainian distributor and authorised service organisation for a number of foreign cars, car parts and accessories manufacturers, including

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and

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. Since 1983, UkrAVTO has been chaired by

Tariel Vasadze Tariel Shakrovych Vasadze ( uk, Таріел Шакрович Васадзе) (born October 15, 1947) is a Ukrainian businessman of Georgian descent, chairman and main shareholder of the UkrAVTO JSC and UkrAVTO Group. He was the chief executive ...

. Now he is also the controlling shareholder of the corporation, as well as of the whole oligarch-like "UkrAVTO Group" united around UkrAVTO JSC.

External links

Official website

UkrAVTO JSC dossier entry at ''ProUA''

UkrAVTO Group dossier entry at ''ProUA''

FSO and UkrAvto
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