LuAZ

Ukrainian automotive company LuAZ (Ukrainian: ЛуАЗ), short for Lutsk Automobile Plant (Ukrainian: Луцький автомобільний завод, Lutskyi Avtomobilnyi Zavod) was a Ukrainian automobile manufacturer in the city of Lutsk built in the Soviet Union. Since 2009 it has been known as Bogdan Motors Automobile Assembly Plant No. 1 (Ukrainian: «Богдан Моторс» Автоскладальний завод №1, «Bohdan Motors» Avtoskladalnyi zavod №1). History In Soviet Union The construction of the factory began in 1951. It was opened in 1955 as LARZ (Lutskyi Avtoremontnyi Zavod, Lutsk Automobile Repair Plant). The early products of this relatively small plant were the repair parts for GAZ trucks. On September 3, 1959, the factory was renamed to LuMZ (Lutskyi Mashynobudivnyi Zavod, Lutsk Machine Building Plant). After the reconstruction the plants begins to produce mobile repair shop and refrigerated truck bodies on Moskvitch, ZIL, and UAZ frames. The first civilian products suffered a reputation for poor quality, however, "for a time the LuAZ was the only car that could be bought off the shelf by Soviet motorists". In 1965, LuMZ starts the assembly of