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Chernihivskyi Avtobusnyi Zavod

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Automobile plant in Chernihiv, Ukraine

Chernihiv Bus Factory (Ukrainian: Чернігівський автозавод) is a private (closed) Ukrainian manufacturer of buses located in Chernihiv, owned by parent company Etalon Corporation.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Aug 2003Founded1
  • Industryautomotive industry1
  • HeadquartersChernihiv1
  • Websitechaz-avto.com.ua
  • Legal formclosed joint-stock company1

Chernihiv Bus Factory (Ukrainian: Чернігівський автозавод) is a private (closed) Ukrainian manufacturer of buses located in Chernihiv, owned by parent company Etalon Corporation.2

Corporate structure

Chernihivskyi Avtobusnyi Zavod is part of a group headed by Эталон. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Эталон
    • Chernihivskyi Avtobusnyi Zavod Chernihiv
    • BAZ Subsidiary · Prolisky

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

The plant was founded in 2003 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 of cars from Gorky Automobile Plant in Ukraine, part of the Etalon Corporation. Manufacturing driveshafts also been retained by the reorganized company, dubbed LLC "Ukrainian Gimbal". In 2003, with the first came off the assembly line bus BAZ-2215 "Dolphin". With increasing demands on the buses BAZ-A079, part of the production was moved to Chernihiv from Boryspil Bus Factory, also included in the corporation Etalon Corporation. In 2007, they put on the conveyor the new bus ChAZ-A074 with chassis from FAW. In 2008 at the factory started production of buses ChAZ-A08310. Also, in 2011, the plant produced with Belarusian company "Belkommunmash" trolleybus BKM 321, which as of August 24, 2011 runs on Chernihiv trolleybus route number 4.

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Products and brands

  • bus

Listed on Wikidata.1

As of 2021 the factory produced the following models of buses and trolley buses:

BAZ-2215 "Dolphin" - small class minibus

BAZ-3215 "Dolphin Maxi" - larger bus based on BAZ-2215 (released two copies)

BAZ-A079

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ChAZ-A074

ChAZ-A08310 - large class tourist bus

BKM/ChAZ-321 - trolleybus made in part with Belkommunmash

Etalon T12110 "Barvinok" - trolleybus

Etalon A12210 "Astra" - city bus based on Etalon T12110

Etalon A08432 "Tulip" - city bus

From Wikipedia’s article on Chernihiv Bus Factory, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Aug 2003Founded Founded1