KAvZ (russian: Курганский автобусный завод (КАвЗ), Kurgansky Avtobusny Zavod, Kurgan Bus Plant) is a bus manufacturer in

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, KGN,

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. The factory started producing buses in 1958, based on

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s 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 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.

Models

Current

* KAvZ-4238 Aurora (2006–present) * KAvZ-4235 Aurora (2008–present) * KAvZ-4270 (2016–present)

Former

* KAvZ-651 (1958-1973) * KAvZ-663 (1961-1966) * KAvZ-685/3270/3271 (1971-1991) * KAvZ-3100 (1976) * KAvZ-49471 (1981-1985) - truckbus * KAvZ-4959 (1985) - truckbus * KAvZ-3275 (1991-1998) * KAvZ-3976 (1993-2007) * KAvZ-4229 (1998) * KAvZ-4224 (1998-2003) -truckbus * KAvZ-3244 (1998-2007) * KAvZ-39766 (2002-2008) * KAvZ-4239 (2008-2014)

Models

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Former

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