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Native name | ОАО «Серпуховский автомобильный завод» |
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| Company type | Open joint-stock company |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 7 July 1939 (1939-07-7) |
| Defunct | 2013 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Artur Miller, bankruptcy manager |
| Products | Cyclecars,VAZ-1111 Oka |
| Revenue | circa $ 85 000 000 |
Number of employees | circa 50 |
| Parent | PLC Tsentrotorg |
| Website | seaz |
SeAZ (Russian:Серпуховский автомобильный завод,romanized: Serpukhovsky Avtomobilny Zavod,lit. 'Serpukhov Automobile Plant') was a large engineering plant inSerpukhov,Moscow Oblast,Russia. From 1939 to 1995, the company was calledSMZ (Serpukhov Motorcycle Plant) and produced variouscyclecars for use by disabled drivers, usually powered byIZh motorcycle engines. Between 1991 and 2008 it also producedLada Okamicrocars developed byAvtoVAZ. The company was declared bankrupt in 2013.[1]
The company was founded on July 7, 1939, by an order of the People's Commissariat for General Automotive Industry and by the head ofGlavmotoveloprom, concerning production of small-capacitymotorcycles.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, the factory entered a period of development: the prototype of a new car was designed and produced, and was named "Oka". It anticipated the car produced nowadays.
In 1985, theCouncil of Ministers of the Soviet Union issued a decree "On the creation of new capacities for the production of the new model of a microcar at the AvtoVAZ andKamAZ plants and at the Serpukhov Motorcycle Plant of the Soviet Ministry of the Automotive Industry".
The Serpukhov plant was significantly rebuilt for the new tasks. The leading Soviet enterprises, as well as some foreign companies such asDürr AG, Bollhoff andPPG, were entrusted with the equipment for production and assembly. In 1989, the plant started assembling cars of the extra-small class. At the same time, it was integrated into theAvtoVAZ corporation.
In 1995, AvtoVAZ fully transferred the assembly of the Oka microcar to SMZ. In 2005, the SeAZ stock company became a member of the Avtokom industrial group. Production of the Oka ended in 2007.[2] The company has subsequently stated that it has no plans to resume car production.[3]
After the company's bankruptcy, the factory site was turned into the Serpukhov Industrial Park.[4]
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