History
The Kurgan Bus Plant built small and medium buses for the rural Soviet Union. It was founded in 1958 with a clear brief: to bring public transport to villages far from the main roads.
Its first product was the KAvZ-651, a bus on the chassis of the GAZ-51 truck with a wood-and-metal body seating nineteen. Simple and undemanding, it suited Soviet country roads perfectly. The plant later moved to the more modern GAZ-52 and GAZ-53 chassis.
In 1971 came the KAvZ-685 with an all-welded steel body. These buses ran rural routes across the country for decades and earned a solid reputation for reliability and ease of repair. In the 1980s the plant added the KAvZ-3100 on the GAZ-52-01 chassis. After the Soviet Union it turned to buses on the GAZelle chassis and still operates today.
Models of KAvZ
3 models in the database, the earliest is 1961
