AvtoZAZ

Zaporozhye Automobile Building Plant. Soviet and Ukrainian enterprise producing passenger cars, as well as vans and buses. It is the head plant of the corporation "UkrAVTO"

The plant has a full cycle of automotive production - from metal stamping in press production and automated and robotic welding, painting and assembly lines to maintenance of cars sold in a network of car dealerships. The main production is located in the Kommunarsky district of the city of Zaporozhye; Ilyichevsk Plant of Automobile Units (IZAA) (closed in 2015) acted as a key production unit, after - Melitopol Motor Plant.

In 1991-2014 he was the leader of the Ukrainian automobile industry. Since the independence of Ukraine and until 2014, the plant produced up to 300-400 thousand cars a year, most of them were exported. Since 2014, production has decreased tenfold, by 2018 the plant stopped producing cars, releasing only buses, vans and auto components. On December 6, 2018, the bankruptcy proceedings of the plant began, the property was put up for auction.

In the same 2018, the company received UAH 1.07 billion of net profit, while in 2017 the loss was UAH 287.75 million. From 2019 until September 2020, the plant did not produce passenger cars. Until the end of 2020 (September-December), according to the Ukravtoprom association, the plant produced 816 cars, as well as 69 buses. Originally planned as a people's car of the USSR.

In March 2020, the plant began trial production of LADA cars: Vesta sedan, XRAY crossover and Largus station wagon. Cars began to deliver to dealers. There is no talk of serial production yet.

In September 2020, information about the start of assembly of Renault Arkana cars by AvtoZAZ was confirmed. During the year, the plant was upgraded to meet international requirements.

During the first 8 months Zaporozhye Automobile Building Plant produced more than 2 thousand cars.

In August 2021, it became known that the plant would start mass production of a city bus based on one of the Mercedes-Benz models.