Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia was one of

Toyota is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is the List of manuf ...

's vehicle production bases in

Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...

. It was located in Shushary,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

, and it manufactured the

Camry The Toyota Camry (; Japanese: トヨタ・カムリ ''Toyota Kamuri'') is an automobile sold internationally by the Japanese auto manufacturer Toyota since 1982, spanning multiple generations. Originally compact in size (narrow-body), the Cam ...

and the RAV4.

History

On 14 June 2005, the construction of the new plant began and it opened on 21 December 2007 with the production of the sixth generation

Toyota Camry The Toyota Camry (; Japanese: トヨタ・カムリ ''Toyota Kamuri'') is an automobile sold internationally by the Japanese auto manufacturer Toyota since 1982, spanning multiple generations. Originally compact in size (narrow-body), the Cam ...

. On August 22, 2016 the Toyota RAV4 started production as the second model to be produced at the Russia plant. On 1 March 2022, due to the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

, Toyota announced that their plant will close and all activity will be suspended.5> On 23 September 2022, Toyota officially closed the TMMR plant.

Production

(2007–2022) * RAV4 (2016–2022)

References

External links

* Toyota factories Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Russia Manufacturing companies based in Saint Petersburg Motor vehicle assembly plants in Russia Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2005 Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 2022 2005 establishments in Russia 2022 disestablishments in Russia Russian subsidiaries of foreign companies {{Russia-company-stub