Pavlovo Bus Factory

Pavlovo Bus Factory

Chimney of Pavlovo bus factory
Company type	Public company
Traded as	MCX: PAZA
Industry	Automotive, ISIC: 2910
Founded	1932 (1932)
Headquarters	Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , Russia
Key people	Andrei Vladimirovich Vasiliev
Products	Buses
Revenue	$256 million[1] (2017)
Operating income	$7.54 million[1] (2017)
Net income	$12.4 million[1] (2017)
Total assets	$339 million[1] (2017)
Total equity	$102 million[1] (2017)
Parent	GAZ Group Bus Division
Website	www.paz-bus.ru

Pavlovo Bus Factory (Russian: Павловский автобус, formerly Па́вловский авто́бусный заво́д, Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod or PAZ) is a manufacturer of buses in Russia, in the city of Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. PAZ is a subsidiary of Russian Buses which is a division of GAZ.

Pavlovo Bus Factory specializes in designing and manufacturing buses of the small/medium class (length 9.7 m). Buses are the most common plant in Russia, their annual output is over 10,000 units, almost 80% of small buses in Russia. The small PAZ buses have long been used by Russian "fixed-route taxi" (marshrutka) operators.

Starting in 2015, the GAZ Group introduced a single brand for all its bus manufacturing subsidiaries, and newly manufactured vehicles now feature the deer badge of the GAZ company.^[2]