AvtoVAZ, St. The former Nissan factory in St. Petersburg is named after Lada St. He suggested changing it to St. Petersburg. The head of the automobile company, Maxim Sokolov, said about the initiative: transmits TASS.
“this name [«Лада Санкт-Петербург»] not only by the board of directors and, say, AvtoVAZ, but also in accordance with regional legislation in St. Petersburg should be properly approved by the government. We made such an offer. Speaking at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Sokolov said, “I hope it will be evaluated positively in the near future.”
AvtoVAZ in February announced On the closing of an agreement to purchase Nissan’s Russian assets from FSUE NAMI. They became the property of NAMI in October last year.
According to AvtoVAZ President Maxim Sokolov, in the second half of 2023, it is planned to start production of C- and D-segment cars under the Lada brand at the former Nissan plant. This year St. at the factory in St. Petersburg going to produce about 10 thousand cars and to increase its production to 50-70 thousand a year in the future.