The domestic auto giant starts the new working week with good news: all companies and subsidiaries of the AVTOVAZ group, including the Lada-Izhevsk plant, switched to a full 5-day working week. In addition, a 6-day work week with a continuous day off for employees has been introduced at the car assembly complex at the Togliatti plant.
“These measures are necessary to meet the demand for new LADA cars, which has grown significantly thanks to the concessional loan program introduced by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. From the beginning of autumn, we will also open additional recruitment for our assembly lines in Togliatti,” said Maxim Sokolov, president of AvtoVAZ.
The president thanked the auto giant’s team, which quickly normalized the situation at the Togliatti and Izhevsk plants and resumed car assembly, “despite the difficult situation of sanction pressure.” Sokolov recalled that in less than three months a special version of the Granta Classic’22 was created, less dependent on foreign components, and today equipped with many well-known options – airbags, the ERA-GLONASS system and air conditioning.
Also during the summer, Niva Legend and Niva Travel off-road vehicles went back into production. The prospects for other models from the previous lineup are vague (as in the case of XRAY) or simply further afield: Vesta will be transferred to Togliatti by March 2023, and Largus should be restored on the same assembly line a little earlier.
- To assemble these models you need ABS – Sokolov promised that in 2023 this last key function will be returned to Lada cars.
- “Behind the wheel” can be read in Odnoklassniki.