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.jpg) ZiL (Zavod Imeni Likhachyova) | |
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| Company type | Joint-stock |
| MCX: ZILL MCX: ZILLP | |
| Industry | Automotive Defence |
| Founded | 1916 (1916) |
| Fate | Production ended in 2012 |
| Headquarters | , Russia |
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| Revenue | $12.1 million[1] (2016) |
| −$19 million[1] (2016) | |
| −$21.5 million[1] (2016) | |
| Owner | City ofMoscow Property Department[2] |
| Website | www |
OJSC AMO ZiL, known fully as thePublic Joint-Stock Company – Likhachov Plant (Russian:Публичное акционерное общество – Завод имени Лихачёва,romanized: Publichnoye aktsionernoye obshchestvo – Zavod imeni Likhachyova) and more commonly calledZiL (Russian:ЗиЛ), was a major Russian automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer that was based inMoscow.
The last ZiL vehicle was assembled in 2012. The company continues to exist only as real-estate development site, on which a new urban district will be built by theLSR Group construction company.[3]
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The factory was founded on 2 August 1916 as theMoscow Automotive Society orAMO (Russian:Автомобильное Московское Общество (АМО),romanized: Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo (AMO)). The factory was completed in 1917, just before theRevolution, and was built south ofMoscow nearMoscow River in Tjufeleva grove. It was a modern building with the latest in American equipment and was designed to employ 6,000 workers.[4] The plans were to produceFiat F-15 1.5-ton trucks under licence. Because of theOctober Revolution and the subsequentRussian Civil War, it took until 1 November 1924 to produce the first vehicle which was shown at a parade on 7 November, theAMO-F-15. Nevertheless, the factory still managed to assemble trucks bought fromItaly in 1917–1919. On 30 April 1923 the factory was named after Italian anarchistPietro Ferrero, but in 1925 was renamed toFirst National Automobile Factory (Russian: 1-й Государственный автомобильный завод). 2 years later in 1927Ivan Likhachev was appointed as a head of the factory. In April 1929, it was agreed on to expand the plant to buildAutocar 2.5-ton truck models.[5][6][7]
In 1929—1931, the factory was re-equipped and expanded with the help of the AmericanA.J. Brandt Co.,[8][9] and changed its name toAutomotive Factory No. 2 Zavod Imeni Stalina (ZIS orZiS). AfterNikita Khrushchev denounced thecult of personality ofJoseph Stalin in 1956, the name was changed again toZavod imeni Likhachyova, after its former directorIvan Likhachev.[10]
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ZiL lanes, road lanes dedicated to vehicles carrying top Soviet officials, were named after the car. The ZiL limousines were the official car that carried the Soviet heads of state, and many Soviet Union allied leaders, to summits or in parades. The limousines were flown to international summits as, for example, in 1987 and 1990 to Washington, D.C. in the US forMikhail Gorbachev's official state visits.[11][12]
ZiL had a history of exporting trucks toCuba, trade resumed in the early 21st century.[13]
The ZiL factory is portrayed in a number of English language documentaries. The 2001 documentary by Daniel Leconte,Lenin if you knew (renamedUSSR Memories), follows the fate of a family associated with the factory as well as the factory itself in the 1990s.[14] The factory is also a feature of the 2014 documentary,The Last Limousine.[15]
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After the final ZiL limousine was built in 2012, the Moscow factory administration stopped truck production and the company was declared bankrupt in 2013. ZiL still exists as a legal entity, but produces no vehicles. In 2014 it was announced that the factory site will be turned into a residential development.[16] Most factory buildings were dismantled in 2015.[17]
The factory's equipment and other automotive assets were auctioned off to a new company, "MSTs6 AMO ZIL". It employs 47 staff, mostly former ZiL workers.[18] The company took part in theMoscow International Automobile Salon 2016.[19]
After the building of "MSTs6 AMO ZIL" was demolished in 2020, it was believed that the company ceased to exist. However, it was reported in 2021 that MSTs6 continued to operate. Its staff and equipment were moved to theMoscow Oblast.[20]
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