Automotive industry in Ukraine
The Automotive industry in Ukraine was established during the Soviet times and until
Before agreement with the EU, Ukraine's automobile manufacturers made between 100 and 200 thousand vehicles per year. The major domestic players in this industry were
In April 2018 the Ukrainian carmakers association UkrAutoProm stated that the automotive industry in Ukraine worked at only 2% of their capacity, while the output of motor vehicles was nearly 98% less than that in March 2008.[1]
Brand
History
By the early 1980s, Soviet automobile industry consisted of several main plants, which produced vehicles for various market segments.
Main factories in Ukrainian SSR were ZAZ (passenger cars), LuAZ (small off-road vehicles), LAZ (buses) and KrAZ (trucks).
ZAZ factory was founded in 1923. The first
ZAZ Zaporozhets was a series of
In 1985 ZAZ manufactured 160,000 cars.
KrAZ was founded on August 31, 1945. In 1958 first KrAZ-222 Dnipro was manufactured.
KrAZ-255 is an off-road truck 6x6 for extreme operations.
Variants include:
- KrAZ-255B
- KrAZ-255B1
- KrAZ-255V
- KrAZ-255L
- KrAZ-256
In 1986 KrAZ manufactured 30,655 trucks.
LAZ was founded on May 21, 1945. In 1956 factory started mass production of LAZ-695 Lviv.
LAZ-695 Lviv — Soviet and Ukrainian middle class city bus produced by LAZ.
LAZ-695 was the first bus produced at Lviv Bus Factory in 1945. In 1949 the factory started to produce automobile wagons, trailers, auto-cranes and (experimental release) electromobiles. The initiative to develop and produce a new model of bus was supported by the government, and European samples of modern buses were brought to the LAZ factory. The models brought included Magirus, Neoplan, and Mercedes. The first bus engineered by Lviv Bus Factory was done in the year of 1955. The bus model underwent various modifications, but the major body composition and equipment remained the same. The most significant change from the first generation to the second (695/695Б/695Е/695Zh) was the front and rear modification.
The rear changes to the second generation 695M added a turbine air intake system with two vents in the roof, and the third generation 695Н/695НГ/695Д modernized the front end. Other variations between the generations include aesthetical changes, such as manufacturing emblems and headlight placement. The model was not faultless, (tight passenger space and frequent engine overheating in 2nd and 3rd generation models), the bus was characterized by simple construction and easy accessibility to all types of roads in Russia and CIS.
In 1988 LAZ manufactured 14,646 buses.
LuAZ was founded as Lutsk Repair Plant on September 25, 1955. First LuAZ-967 was manufactured in 1961.
LuAZ-967 was the Transporter of the Front Line, a small Soviet four-wheel drive amphibious vehicle. Light enough to be air transportable, it had a 400 kg payload over most terrain.
It was produced between 1961 and 1975 and was succeeded by the LuAZ-969В, LuAZ-969, LuAZ-969М and the LuAZ-1302.
In 1990 LuAZ manufactured 16,500 off-road vehicles.
The Ukrainian carmakers association UkrAutoProm stated in April 2018 that the automotive industry in Ukraine worked at only 2% of their capacity and that the output of motor vehicles was nearly 98% less than in March 2008.[1]
Automobile manufacturers
Bogdan
Bogdan Corporation is a leading
.The facilities of Bogdan Corporation are able to produce 120 000 to 150 000 cars, up to 9 000 buses and trolleybuses of all types, and around 15 000 cargo trucks and units of specialized equipment a year. Facilities are located in Lutsk and Cherkasy.
The group was controlled by politician
Cars and trucks are produced or assembled in Cherkasy. The facilities in Cherkasy are the most modern auto-manufacturing facilities in Ukraine. Car manufacturing launched in 2000. The Cherkasy plant can produce 120 000 to 150 000 cars per year. The plant assembled
Buses are mostly produced in Cherkasy while trolleybuses are manufactured in Lutsk. The bus "Bogdan" is the most widely used small bus for city transportation in Ukrainian cities. The facilities located in Cherkasy can produce up to 3000 buses a year along with car and truck production. The plant in Lutsk formerly known as LuAZ now manufactures buses and trolleybuses branded as "Bogdan". Maximum capacity of Lutsk plant is 8000 buses and trolleybuses a year.
Bogdan Corporation was created in 1992, after the
In 2000, the company bought out the bankrupt Soviet LuAZ based in Lutsk (Volyn Oblast) and shortly thereafter started to make its own cars based on the Russian AvtoVAZ. In 2003, the company's began exporting the buses. In 2004, the company signed a general agreement with Isuzu to use the Isuzu brand on the company's exported buses. In 2005, the company Bogdan Motors became a corporation.
In 2013 Chinese carmaker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (
In 2014 the company developed the 'Bars' (panther) multifunctional
Bogdan Bars-8 is based on
Electron
ElectronMash plant is an up-to-date enterprise of Electron corporation, which specializes on production of special off-road all-wheel drive vehicles – trucks of multifunctional purpose, used in public services, and ambulances.
Considering the best foreign experience, low-cargo trucks of multifunctional purpose, unique in the countries of CIS, were worked out by the designers of the enterprise. For the first time the project of the truck was presented on the X International economical Forum Transboarder cooperation in October 2010 and received a high appraisal of specialists, in 2012 the first public truck was produced by newly founded ElectronMash enterprise. Implementation of the project and production of Electron vehicles were realized at its own expense and on the Electron corporation production areas.
The production of ElectronMash enterprise is maneuverable small public trucks Electron with changeable kits of attachments intended for keeping improvement facilities in a proper sanitary condition, carrying out different kinds of municipal services in the streets, pavements, parks and territories around the buildings. The users of ElectronMash production are also industrial enterprises, road organizations, keepers of other urban and industrial infrastructure.
The first Electron vehicles of multifunctional purpose were purchased by the largest hydrogenation Ukrainian company – Ukrhydroenergo, in Ukraine they are successfully used when servicing the territories of big hydroelectric power plants. Among the towns of Ukraine the first consumers of the vehicles of our production were Lviv municipal services.
ElectronMash enterprise designs and produces ambulances of A1, A2, and B types, completed with necessary equipment and devices. The main advantage of the vehicles over existing park of ambulances is that they are of-road all-wheel drive vehicles of hyper cross-country ability with diesel engines, intended for work of urgent and disaster medicine in difficult road conditions and in places difficult of access, namely, in mountain and village areas.
Joint Ukrainian-German venture LLC Electrontrans was founded in 2011 by Electron corporation, TransTec F&E Vetschau UG company (Germany) and Avtotekhnoproekt LLC.
Electrontrans is an enterprise of a full-scale production, specializing in design and production of modern urban electric transport – trams, trolleybuses, electric buses, units and spare parts.
The structure of the enterprise includes design and technological bureau, mechanical and blanking, welding, painting and assembly productions.
Electrontrans production capacity allows to produce 100 trams or 100 trolleybuses / electric buses a year.
Within machine building Electron corporation an extensive program of localization (import substitution) of units and assemblies production for electric transport is realized.
Electrontrans carries out stage-by-stage launching of production of tram bogies, traction equipment control systems for tram, trolleybus and electric bus, coupler drawbars for trams and two – sectional trolleybuses and buses, independent front suspensions and other units and assemblies.
Etalon-Auto
Etalon-Auto Corporation has 2 facilities in Boryspil (BAZ) and Chernihiv (ChAZ). The plant in Lviv (HalAZ) is now bankrupt.
PJSC Chernihivskyi Automobile Plant is a
The plant was founded in 2003 in at the plant of "ChernihivAvtoDetal" (Chernihiv factory driveshafts), which in addition to the principal product from the late 1990s was one of the largest collector car Gorky Automobile Plant in the Ukraine. Part of the corporation Corporation Etalon. Manufacturing driveshafts also been retained by the reorganized company, dubbed LLC "Ukrainian gimbal". In 2003, with the first came off the assembly line buses BAZ 2215 "Dolphin". With increasing demands on the buses BAZ A079, part of the production was moved to Chernihiv from Boryspil Automobile, also included in the corporation. In 2007 have been put on the conveyor new bus BAZ A074 chassis FAW. In 2008 at the factory started production of buses BAZ A083, and 2011 - bus BAZ A081. Also in 2011 at the plant was introduced "
Eurocar
PJSC Eurocar is a car manufacturer situated in
Since the start of its activity the Eurocar plant has been implementing a strategy of annual increases in production and the expansion of its product range. In May 2006 the second part of the project to produce complete cars was officially opened. This production, in which the assembly of cars carried on a conveyor line using a process similar to
The enlarged capacity of the Eurocar plant is full of number of technological innovations, with a flexible production process, well suited to the conditions in Ukraine. Currently the Eurocar plant produces a complete range of Skoda cars.
In 2003 the Eurocar plant was certified to the ISO 9001:2000 international quality management standard. Every year Eurocar maintains this certification. Certification audits are carried out by the Prague representative office of
From the very beginning company personnel involved directly in the production of vehicles have received specialized training in the Czech Republic from Skoda Auto. In 2008 a teaching unit for training was introduced at the Eurocar plant. The company conducts certification of personnel, employment and working conditions.
KrAZ
KRAZ (Kremenchuk Automobile Plant or AvtoKrAZ) is a factory that produces trucks and other special-purpose vehicles in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, particularly heavy-duty off-road models.[5]
On April 17, 1958, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ordered the construction of a plant for heavy-duty vehicles production in Kremenchuk. Heavy-duty trucks manufacture was transferred from the Yaroslavl Automobile Plant (today Yaroslavl Motor Plant).
In 1961 the plant delivered for export more than 500 vehicles in 26 countries of the world - Argentina, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, China, India, Vietnam and others.
In 1986 total output was 30 655 KrAZ vehicles - the maximum quantity over the period of its existence.
In 1996 Holding company "AvtoKrAZ" was registered.
In 2004 HC "AvtoKrAZ" signed one of the biggest contracts for delivery of 2200 KrAZ vehicles to Iraq. The ISO 9001:2000 quality control system was introduced at the plant.
In January 2006 the 800,000th truck was assembled at the KrAZ main assembly plant. In October of the same year HC "AvtoKrAZ" won the first prize among 100 Ukrainian companies with the best rate of development according to the net profit growth pursuant to the results of rating "Top 100 Most dynamic companies"
On August 23, 2011, the KrAZ-5233 "Spetsnaz" has entered into service with Ukrainian army.[6]
After the
Several
In November 2014 Ukrainian government placed an order for 1200 vehicles and 200 armored personnel carrier to the factory. The contract was worth 1 billion UAH ($64,267,360.00).[9]
LAZ
LAZ (Lviv Automobile Plant) is a bus manufacturing company in Lviv, Ukraine.
It was one of the major bus manufacturers in the Soviet Union and the largest-ever industrial company in the city. Now it is a private, holding company. It still manufactures buses of EURO class today.
The birth of L'vivs'ky Avtobusnyi Zavod dates back to 1945 with the opening of a factory in Lvov, western Ukraine city. In the first decade were built industrial vehicles such as trailers, excavators, mobile stores. Buses were introduced after the mid-Fifties with the first prototype (Laz-695) in 1956. Soon began mass production and within a year a thousand copies left the assembly line. In 1961 the debut of touring coaches (Laz-697E) and in 1985 intercity in medium sizes (Laz-4207). Record year was 1988 with 14,646 buses produced. The range was gradually enlarged to new models including, since the early Nineties, also trolleybuses. With the new Millennium debuted Hd touring coaches, low floor citybuses and airports models. In 2001 the production facility was privatized and the property extended to more partners. In 2007, Laz celebrated a special anniversary: 365 000 buses produced from the beginning of its career. Goal which lead the Ukrainian company to enter the Guinness World Record.
Lviv Tank Repair Plant
The Dozor-B is a four-wheeled Ukrainian armored car.
The Dozor-B is also used by special units of the armed forces (quick reaction forces and military police) to carry out reconnaissance, patrolling, and peace-keeping operations, as well as being used as the main transportation vehicle under combat conditions (including NBC environment).[10]
The layout of the armoured personnel carrier is based on a motor-car scheme. The vehicle is divided into two main compartments: power pack compartment and crew compartment.
The power pack compartment occupies the front and central parts of the hull and is separated from the crew compartment by an air-tight vibration/noise-insulating bulkhead. The compartment accommodates the engine with its operation support systems, transmission, main elements of the steering system, air system, braking system, and components of the air conditioning system and heating system.
The crew compartment occupies the central and rear parts of the hull and is used for accommodating the crew, installing the assemblies required for operation of the crew, and placing various equipment, ammunition, and SPTA. The crew compartment is divided into the driving compartment, fighting compartment, and troop compartment.
The driving compartment is located in the front part of the crew compartment and comprises the driver's station fitted with armoured personnel carrier controls, and the commander's station fitted with communications devices and navigation equipment.
The fighting compartment is located in the central part of the crew compartment and comprises the gunner's station fitted with machine gun laying and control devices.
The troop compartment is located in the rear part of the crew compartment and comprises seats for troops, periscopic vision blocks, and firing ports to enable the troops to carry out observation and to fire small arms.
The crew compartment accommodates the filtering and ventilating unit and the main components of the ventilation, heating, and air conditioning systems.
NVO Praktyka
The Kozak is a
The first Kozak vehicle first appeared on August 24, 2009, on Independence Day of Ukraine military parade in Kyiv[11]
Only two vehicles were made[12] until March 2014.[13]
Third vehicle (also known as «Kozak-2014») was built in November 2014.[14][15] In March 2015 the vehicle was armed with NSV machine gun[16]
Another one «Kozak-2014» was built in 2015 and armed with
All Kozak vehicles are based on the Iveco chassis.
Stryi-Auto
ZAZ
ZAZ (Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant) is the main
Beginning of passenger cars manufacturing in Ukraine started in 1959. Totally (from 1960 to 1994) there were 3,422,444
In 1975 the factory was consolidated in the
In 1988 serial production of ZAZ-1102 Tavria family passenger cars was started in Zaporizhia. At the same time, the manufacture of water-cooled MeMZ engines began in Melitopol.
On June 1, 1994, the factory ceased production of its
In 1994-1997 ZAZ-1105 Dana was produced.
When AvtoZAZ-Daewoo joint venture with
Following the bankruptcy of Daewoo Motors in 2001, the UkrAVTO corporation bought out AvtoZAZ holding in 2002. All of the AvtoZAZ manufacturing facilities (most notably, MeMZ and Illichivsk assembling plant) were reincorporated into ZAZ. The company even adopted a new logo. The Daewoo part in the joint venture was bought out by Swiss venture Hirsch & CIE in 2003.
End of 2004 saw the beginning of full-scale production of a completely domestic
By Decree of the President of Ukraine, CJSC "ZAZ" employees were rewarded with State awards of Ukraine in 2009.
In 2011 ZAZ started full-scale production of the Chery A13 under its own badge as ZAZ Forza. The same year production of the Chevrolet Aveo (T250) was moved from the FSO car factory to ZAZ.
In 2012 Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant started serial full-scale production of a new car - ZAZ Vida.
In the first half of 2012 ZAZ manufactured 20,060 vehicles, a 30% decline from the same period in 2011.[18]
Former manufacturers
Anto-Rus
HalAZ
KrASZ
LARZ
LuAZ
The factory was founded in 1951, and was known as LARZ (Lutsk Automobile Repair Plant) and then LuMZ (Lutsk Machinebuilding Plant) from 1955.[19] Along with truck repairs, the early products of this relatively small plant were mobile repair shop and refrigerated truck bodies on Moskvitch, ZIL, and UAZ frames.[19]
Its first original design is the sturdy and simple LuAZ-967 off-road vehicle for the Red Army.[19] It originated after the Korean War, when the Soviets saw a need for small off-road vehicles comparable to the American Jeep, to supplement the overly-large and -heavy GAZ-69s then in service.[19] Developed at NAMI (the National Automobile Institute), the prototype, known as NAMI 049, was completed in 1958.[19]
SARZ
Historical production by year
Year | Production |
---|---|
1993 | 172,000
|
1994 | 109,000
|
1995 | 67,400
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1996 | 12,100
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1997 | 7,100
|
1998 | 33,000
|
1999 | 19,500
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2000 | 31,255
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2001 | 35,400
|
2002 | 48,100
|
2003 | 105,600
|
2004 | 187,500
|
2005 | 215,759
|
2006 | 286,800
|
2007 | 400,500
|
2008 | 424,000
|
2009 | 69,300
|
2010 | 83,133
|
2011 | 104,654
|
2012 | 76,281
|
2013 | 50,449
|
2014 | 28,751
|
2015 | 8,244
|
2016 | 5,264
|
2017 | 9,542
|
2018 | 6,623
|
2019 | 7,266
|
2020 | 4,952
|
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