ErAZ


ErAZ was an automobile manufacturer in Yerevan, Armenia mostly known for producing the van RAF-977K from 1966 to 1996. Plans to establish the ErAZ factory came about on December 31, 1964, by the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. The original staff were trained at the Riga Autobus Factory in Latvia and UAZ in Russia. ErAZ was privatized in 1995 and declared bankruptcy in 2002.

History

The company started 31 December 1964, with Minavtoprom, was built 1 May 1966, assembling parts produced elsewhere. Production the first year was 1000 vehicles. Early products had payloads of and. They are vans and furgons which were produced for the needs of the Armenian country and other republics in USSR.
The company built an improve ErAZ-762A beginning in 1969. Production climbed to 6,500 a year by 1973, and reached 12,000 in 1975, thanks to installation of a genuine assembly line, one of the Soviet Union's first of its kind.
ErAZ designers began work on an all-new van, the ErAZ-3730, in 1971, following the lead of the Commer and Dodge Walk Thru. The first trials models were assembled in 1976; they never entered production, due to a lack of funds.
The ErAZ-762B appeared in 1976.
In 1982, the company produced its 100,000-th vehicle.

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