Mogilvskiy Avtomobilny Zavod imeni S. M. Kirova, abbreviated MoAZ, (/), is an automotive and earth-moving equipment manufacturer located in the city of

Mogilev Mogilev (; , ), also transliterated as Mahilyow (, ), is a city in eastern Belarus. It is located on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, about from the Belarus–Russia border, border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from Bryansk Oblast. As of 2024, ...

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

. MoAZ has been a subsidiary of

BelAZ BelAZ (, ) is a Belarus, Belarusian automobile plant and one of the world's largest manufacturers of large and especially large dump trucks, as well as other heavy transport equipment for the mining and construction industries. ''BelAZ'' is a ...

since 2006. In 1958 MoAZ was named in honor of

Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (born Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russ ...

, an early Bolshevik leader in the

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History

The company was founded in 1935 as Workshop. In 1941 the plant was evacuated to Kuibyshev, where engines for the attack aircraft

IL-2 The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian language, Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a Ground attack aircraft, ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the World War II, Second World War. The word ''shturmovík'' (C ...

were produced.Могилевский автомобильный завод имени С. М. Кирова
/ref> After World War II the plant was returned to Mogilev and produced locomotives, steam-powered machinery, overhead cranes, and tank lorries based on

GAZ-51 The GAZ-51 (Russian: ГАЗ-51) is a light truck manufactured by the Soviet vehicle manufacturer GAZ, Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod. The vehicle was designed before the World War II, Second World War and mass-produced together with the all-wheel-driv ...

lorries. In 1958 the factory started the production of the single-axle MAZ-529, developed by the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ).Одноосный тягач МАЗ-529.
/ref> In 2006 the factory became a branch of JSC "

", which has been a branch of "BelAZ-Holding" since 2012. Most MoAZ vehicles are exported; more than 85% of the produced vehicles are sold in CIS member states.

Current products

MOAZ-6014 Scraper in Technical museum Togliatti

* Self-propelled scrapers (MoAZ-6014); * Loaders (MoAZ-40484); * Dump trucks (MoAZ-7505, MoAZ-7529); * Underground trains (MoAZ-7405-9586);Могилевский автомобильный завод для горнодобывающей промышленности
// «Горная Промышленность» № 2 2003. * Lorries (MoAZ-049, MoAZ-060, MoAZ-070); * Motorized rollers (MoAZ-6442-9890); * Wheeled bulldozers (MoAZ-40486, MoAZ-40489); * Electric cars (EC-1.00); * Tractors (MoAZ-49011); * Airdrome trucks (MoAZ-7915); * Engineering tractors for the Belarus Army.Кочнев Е. Секретные автомобили Советской Армии / Военные одноосные и двухосные тягачи
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References

External links

MoAZ home page (Belarusian)BelAZ's MoAZ home page (Russian)
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The fullest technical information. 3D models BELAZ
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