Lviv Bus Factory

Lviv Bus Factory (LAZ)
Company typeHolding company
IndustryBus manufacturing
FoundedMay 21, 1945; 79 years ago (1945-05-21) in Lviv, Ukraine
DefunctOctober 2014
HeadquartersKyiv Ukraine, ,
Key people
Igor Churkin[1][2]
ProductsBuses, trolleybuses
BrandsLAZ, Lemberg Coach, LVIV bus
OwnerCity Transport Group
ParentLAZ Holding
Websitewww.laz.ua
NeoLAZ 12 is used by FC Karpaty Lviv.
A Mil Mi-10 transport-helicopter displayed at the 1965 Paris Air Show with a LAZ bus carried beneath it.
LAZ 695 — a common sight in former Soviet cities
LAZ 699 in Tomsk, Russia
LAZ Liner 12
LAZ 52528 in Lviv
LAZ 52522 trolleybus
ElectroLAZ 12
ElectroLAZ E301D1 - 18.6 meter trolley bus
Lemberg 5208 in the center of Lviv

The Lviv Automobile Factory (Ukrainian: Львівський автомобільний завод), mostly known under its obsolete name Lvivskyi Avtobusnyi Zavod (Ukrainian: Львівський автобусний завод, literally "Lviv Bus Factory") was a bus manufacturing company in Lviv, Ukraine. Their brand-name is LAZ (ЛАЗ), and the company and its products are often referred to with this acronym rather than the full name.

It was one of the major bus manufacturers in the Soviet Union and the largest-ever industrial company in the city of Lviv. The factory was held by a private holding company.