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{{Short description|Manufacturer of buses in Russia}}
{{hatnote|For other meaning of PAZ see [[PAZ (disambiguation)]].}}
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| hq_location_city = [[Pavlovo, Pavlovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast|Pavlovo]], [[Nizhny Novgorod Oblast]]
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| key_people = Andrei Vladimirovich Vasiliev
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[[File:Logo_manufacturer_of_buses_in_Russia_PAZ.png|thumb|Former company brand]]
[[Image:Marschrutki nizhnij.jpg|thumb|PAZ buses are the workhorses of public transportation in [[Nizhny Novgorod]]]]
'''Pavlovo Bus Factory''' ({{langx|ru|Павловский автобус}}, formerly {{lang|ru|Па́вловский авто́бусный заво́д}}, '''Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod''' or '''PAZ''') is a manufacturer of [[bus]]es in [[Russia]], in the city of
[[Pavlovo, Pavlovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast|Pavlovo]], [[Nizhny Novgorod Oblast]]. PAZ is a subsidiary of [[Russian Buses]] which is a division of [[GAZ]]. The production of buses since 2005 has been carried out by  '''PAZ''', a 100% subsidiary of PAO Pavlovsky Avtobus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ПАО "Павловский автобус" |url=https://e-disclosure.ru/portal/files.aspx?id=3638&type=3&attempt=2 |website=ЦЕНТР РАСКРЫТИЯ КОРПОРАТИВНОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ}}</ref>

Pavlovo Bus Factory specializes in designing and manufacturing buses of the small/medium class (length 9.7 m). Buses are the most common plant in Russia, their annual output is over 10,000 units, almost 80% of small buses in Russia. The small PAZ buses have long been used by Russian "fixed-route taxi" (''[[marshrutka]]'') operators.

Starting in 2015, the GAZ Group introduced a single brand for all its bus manufacturing subsidiaries, and newly manufactured vehicles now feature the deer badge of the [[GAZ]] company.<ref name="newbadge">{{cite web|title=Likino Bus Plant|url=http://gazgroup.ru/en/company/structure/likinskiy_avtobusnyy_zavod/|website=gazgroup.ru|access-date=30 April 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408011537/http://gazgroup.ru/en/company/structure/likinskiy_avtobusnyy_zavod/|archive-date=8 April 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==
The factory has its origins in the ZATI automobile and tractor tool plant, established in Pavlovo in 1932.<ref name="istoriya">{{cite web |title=История завода |url=http://www.paz.nnov.ru/hystory.htm |publisher=Paz.nnov.ru |access-date=6 July 2017 |date=10 June 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000610080617/http://www.paz.nnov.ru/hystory.htm |archive-date=10 June 2000 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The building of the factory started in 1952, and in the same year the first PAZ-651 long-hood buses (based on the [[GAZ-51]] general-purpose lorry) were produced. The government had a plan to produce 10,000 buses per year. In 1960, the production of new PAZ-652 forward control model on the same chassis started. It was replaced by the outwardly similar PAZ-672 (based on the [[GAZ-53]] lorry) in early 1968, and this bus had a large family of various modifications. 1989 saw a start of production of the new [[PAZ-3205]] model having basically the same chassis but a completely new body.

== Models ==
===Current===
* [[PAZ-3205]] (1989–present)
* [[PAZ-3206]] (1995–present)
* PAZ-3237 "Luzhok" (2002–present)
* [[PAZ-4234]] (2003–present)
* PAZ-3203 (2006–present)
* PAZ-3204 (2006–present)
* PAZ Vector 4 (2012–present)
* PAZ Vector 3 (2015–present)
* GAZ Vector Next (2016–present)

===Former===
* PAZ-651 (1950-1961, based on GAZ-51I)
** PAZ-651A (1961-1971)
* PAZ-652 (1958-1968)
* PAZ-653 (1950–1956, ambulance version of PAZ-651)
* PAZ-655 (1954–?, armored van version of PAZ-651)
* PAZ-657 (1954–1958, bread van version of PAZ-651)
* PAZ-661 (1954–1956, clothing van version of PAZ-651)
** PAZ-661B
* PAZ-672 (1967-1989)
* PAZ-3201 (1972-1989, based on GAZ-66)
* PAZ-5272 (1999-2003)
* PAZ-4230 Aurora (2001-2002, production moved to [[KAvZ]])
* PAZ-4238 Aurora (2001-2002, production moved to KAvZ)
* PAZ Real (2007-2009)

===Panel vans===
* PAZ-657 (1954–1958, based on GAZ-51)
* PAZ-659

===Trailers===
* PAZ-658
* PAZ-740
* PAZ-742
* PAZ-743
* PAZ-744
* PAZ-746
* PAZ-750

===Prototypes===
* PAZ-665 (1964)
* PAZ-671 (1958, based on GAZ-52)
** PAZ-671A (1958, based on GAZ-53)
** PAZ-671G (based on GAZ-52A)
* PAZ-675 (1960, based on GAZ-52)
* PAZ-985 (1960)
* PAZ-3202 (1973)
* PAZ-3203 (1972)
* PAZ-3204 (1974)

== Around the world ==
*One PAZ-672 came to [[Chile]] between 1970 and 1971 with the installation of the soviet KPD factory of concrete blocks for prefabricated buildings, in [[Quilpué]] [http://galeria.chilebuses.cl/details.php?image_id=5188&sessionid=2h617h7idaq35hmjkh4ddllbi1]. This was one of the many symbols of the relation between the Soviet Union and the [[Popular Unity (Chile)|Unidad Popular]] government in Chile.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:ГЗА-651 Мосгортранс.JPG|PAZ-651
File:PAZ-672_at_Bronevoy_Pereulok_12_in_Minsk_24_August_2014.JPG|PAZ-672
File:PAZik.JPG|PAZ-672 [[Emergency Gas Service]] Command Bus in Moscow 
File:PAZ-3205_%284713534105%29.jpg|PAZ-3205
File:ПАЗ-3204 в Хабаровске.JPG|PAZ-3204
File:ПАЗ-3237-2.JPG|PAZ-3237 in Moscow
File:PAZ-4230.jpg|PAZ-4230 "Aurora" in Gatchina
File:ПАЗ-4234 в Мичуринске.JPG|PAZ-4234
File:PAZ school buses Chisinau 02.jpg|A row of new PAZ school buses in the central square of Chisinau, Moldova
File:GAZ Vector 3 and PAZ Vector buses.jpg|PAZ Vector 3 (right) and Vector 4 (left)
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|PAZ}}
{{commons category|PAZ buses}}
* [http://www.paz-bus.ru/ JSC "Pavlovo Bus"]

{{European bus builders}}
{{Automotive industry in Russia}}
{{Automotive industry in the Soviet Union}}

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