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LiAZ (/Likinskij Avtobusnyj Zavod, Likino Bus Factory) - is a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
 manufacturing factory located in Likino, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.

History
The factory was created in 1933 as a wood processing plant LOZOD (Likino Engineered Wood Test Factory). It produced pressed wood products, as well as wood particle board
Particle board

Particle board, or particleboard, is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood particles, such as wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even saw dust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extrusion....
s. In 1945 the factory was renamed to LiMZ (Likino Machinery Factory) and it started producing small machinery like power saws and portable generators.

In 1959 factory has started to assemble passenger bus ZIL
Zavod Imeni Likhacheva

Zavod imeni Likhacheva More commonly called ZIL is a major Russian truck and heavy equipment manufacturer, which also produced armored cars for most Soviet Union leaders, as well as buses, armored fighting vehicles, and aerosans....
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LiAZ (/Likinskij Avtobusnyj Zavod, Likino Bus Factory) - is a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
 manufacturing factory located in Likino, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.

History


The factory was created in 1933 as a wood processing plant LOZOD (Likino Engineered Wood Test Factory). It produced pressed wood products, as well as wood particle board
Particle board

Particle board, or particleboard, is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood particles, such as wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even saw dust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extrusion....
s. In 1945 the factory was renamed to LiMZ (Likino Machinery Factory) and it started producing small machinery like power saws and portable generators.

In 1959 factory has started to assemble passenger bus ZIL
Zavod Imeni Likhacheva

Zavod imeni Likhacheva More commonly called ZIL is a major Russian truck and heavy equipment manufacturer, which also produced armored cars for most Soviet Union leaders, as well as buses, armored fighting vehicles, and aerosans....
 158. It was renamed to LiAZ the same year. In 1967 the factory has designed and manufactured first bus of its own named LiAZ-677. The factory has produced over 200 thousand buses of this model over next 25 years.

After collapse of the Soviet Union LiAZ started to experience difficulties. In 1996 bus manufacturing ceased and the factory declared bankruptcy in 1997. The factory has been restructured and it is known as LLC
Limited liability company

A limited liability company in the law of the vast majority of United States jurisdictions is a legal form of business company that provides limited liability to its owners....
 Likinskij Avtobusnyj Zavod. In 2000 it became a part of RusAvtoProm corporation, and it is a part of GAZ
GAZ

GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod , translated as Gorky Automobile Plant , started in 1929 as NNAZ, a cooperation between Ford Motor Company and the Soviet Union....
 group since 2005.