Minsk Automobile Plant
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Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ, Russian: Производственное республиканское унитарное предприятие «Минский автомобильный завод», Republican production unitary enterprise "Minsky Avtomobilny Zavod") is a state-run automotive manufacturer association in Belarus.
It manufactures heavy-duty trucks, buses, trolleybuses and road tractors (tractor trucks ), trailers, cranes. MAZ also manufactures TELs (Transporter-Erector-Launchers) for many of the world's mobile ballistic missiles, from the widely proliferated MAZ-543 used to carry and launch the Scud B up through the Topol M's impressive 8-axle TEL.
The association consists of the MAZ plant proper, located in Minsk, which is the main enterprise of the association, as well as several secondary enterprises:
- РУП «БААЗ» (in Baranavichy)
- РУП «ОЗАА» (in Asipovichy)
- РУА «КЗТШ» (in Zhodino)
- РУП «Литмаш» (in Minsk),
- ПРУП «ДЭМЗ» (in Dzyarzhynsk)
- РУП «СтройМАЗтрест» (in Minsk)