LiAZ

Overview

LiAZ (Russian: Ликинский автобусный завод (ЛиАЗ), Likinskiy Avtobusnyi Zavod, English: Likino Bus Plant) is a bus-manufacturing company based in Likino-Dulyovo, Russia.

It is now an entirely-owned subsidiary of GAZ.

It specializes in designing and assembling buses large and extra-large class (length 10.5m and beyond).

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Facts in brief

Native name Ликинский автобусный завод

Industry Bus manufacturing

Founded 1937

Headquarters Likino-Dulyovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Products Buses, trolleybuses (2005-2012)

Number of employees 2,061

Website liaz-bus.ru

A LiAZ-677M in Yelets (Lipetsk Oblast)

History

The factory was created as a wood-processing plant LOZOD (Likino Engineered Wood Test Factory) in 1937.

It constructed press-wood products and wood-particle boards.

The factory changed its name to LiMZ (Likino Machinery Factory) in 1944, and it began manufacturing small equipment such as power saws and transportable engines.

In 1959, the factory began constructing passenger buses ZIL-158; the same year, it changed its name to LiAZ.

In 1967, the factory designed and constructed its first bus model of its own, LiAZ-677; for the next twenty-nine years, the factory assembled 194,183 buses of this model.

Construction of the new model LiAZ-5256 started in 1986; that model is now the most frequent model of a large bus in Russia (it manufactured over 24,650 buses in 2013 alone).

LiAZ dealt financial trouble after the Soviet Union dissolved.

Bus manufacturing ended in 1996; the factory declared bankruptcy the following year.

The factory has subsequently been reorganized and is now known as LLC Likinskij Avtobusnyj Zavod; it became part of the RusAvtoProm Corporation, and has been part of the GAZ Group since 2005.

LiAZ assembled trolleybuses from 2005-2012.

LiAZ-5256 (first generation, pre-2005) in Stary Oskol (Belgorod Oblast)

Buses: Historical

ZIL-158/LiAZ-158 (1959-1970), front-engined bus

LiAZ-677 (1967-1996), front-engined bus

LiAZ-5256 bus (second generation), Penza

Buses: Historical – cont.

ZIL-158 LiAZ-158 (ZIL-158V), 1965

Buses: Historical – cont.

LiAZ 677M LiAZ-677M, rear view

Buses: Current model range

LiAZ-5256 (since 1986), rear-engined bus

LiAZ-5292 (since 2004), rear-engined low-floor bus; buses of this model were used for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi

LiAZ-5293 (since 2006), rear-engined low-entry bus

LiAZ-6212 (since 2002), articulated bus based on LiAZ-5256

LiAZ-6213 (since 2007), low-floor articulated bus based on LiAZ-5292

LiAZ-5256 bus (second generation) in Oradea, Romania

Buses: Current model range – cont.

LiAZ-5292 LiAZ-5292 restyling of 2011

Buses: Current model range – cont.

LiAZ-5292 restyling of 2013 LiAZ-5293

Buses: Current model range – cont.

LiAZ-6212 LiAZ-6213

Two LiAZ-5292.20 buses in Moscow

Trolleybuses (2005-2012)

LiAZ-5280, trolleybus based on LiAZ-5256

LiAZ-52802, low-floor trolleybus based on LiAZ-5292

LiAZ-52803, low-entry trolleybus based on LiAZ-5293

LiAZ-5280 trolleybus in Kursk

Golaz-LiAZ 5256

The End

LiAZ website: liaz-bus.ru

LiAZ 6274