Bus Volzhanin 5270 20 06 from the 90s - the “unwanted child” of LiAZ

Buses of the Volgobas brand have been transporting passengers throughout Russia for a long time, but not everyone knows about it. Here’s another thing – take a closer look at public transport! More interesting is what number it is, that is, the route. And why did I have to freeze for a long time at the bus stop again? Bakulin Motors Group, the enterprise that produces Volgobas buses, is atypical. It appeared in 1993, when something like this was rarely founded. Various privatizations and “buy-sell” schemes were held in high esteem back then. But then the LiAZ plant turned up fortunately. The company offered licenses to assemble buses to everyone. Naturally, not just like that, but from their own machine kits. After all, LiAZ was unable to quickly adapt to capitalist lines. But new enterprises knew how to do this - they somehow managed to sell the same buses much more quickly.


But Volzhanin 5270 20 06, which will be discussed on the channel “Ivan Zenkevich PRO Cars”, is our own development. She appeared rather in spite of. After all, LiAZ finally learned to sell equipment itself in the mid-90s. Therefore, he did not need competitors. Deliveries of vehicle kits have stopped. Almost all bus assemblers went bankrupt. But Volgobas remained. Of course, I had to invest in production. And their first cars, like the Volzhanin 5270 20 06, turned out to be similar to LiAZ. However, no one had any questions. Public transport has generally become unified. Nowadays it is possible to distinguish one brand from another only by nameplates.