Mogilevsky Avtomobilny Zavod

A MoAZ-546P scraper from the factory's production. The machine dates from the 1970s

A MoAZ-6442 as a clearing vehicle for airfields (2010)

The Mogilewski Awtomobilny Sawod , Russian Могилевский автомобильный завод , also known as MoAZ for short , is a Belarusian manufacturer of heavy construction machinery that was founded in the 1930s as a repair shop for automobiles. Today scrapers, bulldozers, truck bodies and wheel loaders are manufactured. According to its own information, it is the largest manufacturer of construction machinery within the CIS countries .

history

The Mogilewski Awtomobilny Sawod is historically based on a repair shop for automobiles, which was built in Mogiljow from 1932 and opened on July 9, 1935. From the very beginning, the work was nicknamed SM Kirov, after the Soviet party official Sergei Mironowitsch Kirow . This has been preserved to this day. In the early years it was also number 7.

On October 18, 1940, the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union decided to convert the plant to the production of war-necessary goods. Thereupon one began with the production of aircraft engines for the Soviet attack aircraft Ilyushin Il-2 , which with more than 36,000 copies produced should become one of the most frequently built aircraft on earth. The extensive modifications that were necessary for this were henceforth referred to as plant number 459. The order to evacuate the factory was issued on June 25, 1941, as German troops had advanced too close to the site. Production was then moved to Samara , then called Kuibyshev, behind the Volga . After the German troops lost the former location in Mogiljow on May 28, 1944, production began to be relocated back.

On January 11, 1946, the Soviet government decided that the plant would in future produce steam generators (a combination of an electric generator and a steam engine as a drive) for local power supply. The machines had an output between 10 and 200 hp. From April 1947, traction engines were also manufactured.

For the series production of various steam engines and generators, the plant also took over the production of overhead cranes with a lifting capacity of 5000 kilograms in February 1956. From June 1958, the company began to manufacture the MAZ-529 piece by piece until the end of the year. With the support of experts from Minski Avtomobilny Sawod , the foundation stone is laid for the construction machinery production that continues to this day. In November 1959, the first batch of MoAZ-546E scrapers can finally be produced. It was a combination of a MAZ-529 tractor and a trailer (scraper) developed in-house.

On March 28, 1966, the plant was given its current name, Mogilewski Awtomobilny Zavod. From December 1968 the first prototypes of the MoAZ-6401, the manufacturer's first dump truck, were produced. This finally went into series production at the beginning of 1971. In 1979 the first MoAZ-522A dump truck was manufactured. It is the first dump truck from the USSR with a hydrodynamic transmission. In the early 1980s, a steel foundry was built for the plant, which began production in 1984. In 1987 a new dump truck with a payload of 23 tons goes into series production, the MoAZ-75051. In 1993, production of SMB-049 concrete mixer trucks begins, one of the plant's first new products after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These were delivered both on our own chassis and on the truck chassis of the MAZ factory.

In 1975 the plant also became a member of the BelAwtoMAZ vehicle manufacturer community . In 2006 MoAZ became part of BelAZ . MoAZ now exports more than 60% of the commercial vehicles produced with the MoAZ brand name to the CIS countries .

Models

Front view of a historic MoAZ scraper

The models listed were produced by the factory around 2003. In addition, machines are also manufactured for underground mining and for building tunnels.

• SMB-060: Concrete Mixer (Semi Truck)
• SMB-049: Concrete mixer (4 m³ loading volume, two-axle truck)
• SMB-070: Concrete mixer (6 m³ loading volume, three-axle truck)
• MBZ-014: garbage truck
• MOAZ-6442: wheeled vehicle (similar to a scraper , the only dragline has been replaced by a uniaxial trailer)
• MoAZ-7405: Articulated dump truck
• MoAZ-7529: flat dump truck for road construction
• MoAZ-75296 : flat concrete mixer for mining and tunneling
• MoAZ-40484: wheel loader (also with sliding plate instead of shovel)
• MoAZ-49011: Tug
• MoAZ-40489: Bulldozer (four-wheeled, similar to a large wheel loader with a sliding blade instead of a shovel)
• MoAZ-75051: dump truck
• EC-1.00: electric trucks

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Mogilev Autoworks named after SM Kirov" (MoAZ) (English)

Web links

Commons : MoAZ  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Manufacturer website (Russian)
• Outline of the history of the plant on the manufacturer's website (Russian)
• Model range (russian)

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 58 "  N , 30 ° 23 ′ 49"  E