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МКДУ-2 Multipurpose Road Vehicle built by the JSC Tosno Mechanical Plant ("ТОМЕЗ", АО «Тосненский Механический Завод») at Tosno, Leningrad region on the basis of NEFAZ dump truck that uses KAMAZ-65115 commercial chassis

Tosno Mechanical Plant was founded in 1982 as an enterprise of the Ministry of Land Reclamation of the USSR that produced land reclamation machinery and equipment. In 1994 the company was converted to production municipal machines - Combined Multipurpose Road Maintenance machines (CRM) on the chassis of domestic and foreign cars. From 2012 y production of CRM has amounted to more than 1700 units, not counting upgrading and modernization of the existing municipal vehicles.

 

The construction of the NEFAZ plant began in 1972 in Neftekamsk, Bashkiria, specifically to provide the Kamsky Automobile Plant (KAMAZ), which was under construction, with spare parts and component parts for trucks in accordance with a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from December 7, 1970. Since 1977 and up to the present time NEFAZ has been the main producer of dump trucks on KAMAZ chassis. On May 19, 1982, the 100 thousandth KAMAZ-5511 dump truck was produced. In 2000 the development of a large capacity first class city bus was started and in September of the same year a prototype vehicle was produced. The first bus of the Nefaz-5299 family rolled off the assembly line on December 6, 2000. In 2001 115 buses were produced, which were delivered to Ufa, Ishimbai, Sterlitamak, Sibai, Neftekamsk, Kumertau, Beloretsk and Oktyabrsky. At present NEFAZ-5299 is the whole family of Russian buses, which are produced as high-floor (since 2000), low-floor (since 2004), full-floor (since 2011) city, suburban and long-distance buses with diesel and gas engine, as well as trolleybus (since 2008) and electric bus (since 2012) variants. The base model has undergone three significant design restyles (in 2005, 2013 and 2018). NEFAZ-5299 is one of the most popular city bus models in modern Russia: more than 10,000 copies have been produced in 15 years of production. In August 2018, the KAMAZ-6282 electric bus, a joint development of NEFAZ and KAMAZ, was released.

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