Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ, Russian: Производственное республиканское унитарное предприятие «Минский автомобильный завод», Republican production unitary enterprise "Minsky Avtomobilny Zavod") is a state-run automotive manufacturer association in Belarus, largest in Eastern and Central Europe.
It manufactures heavy-duty trucks, buses, trolleybuses, road tractors and semi-trailers for semi-trailer trucks, and cranes. MAZ also manufactures TELs (Transporter-Erector-Launchers) for many of the world's mobile ballistic missiles, from the widely proliferated MAZ-543 used to carry and launch the Scud B up through the Topol M's impressive 8-axle TEL.
The association consists of the MAZ plant proper, located in Minsk, which is the main enterprise of the association, as well as several secondary enterprises:
MAZ city busses can be found all over Belarus as well as in the Ukraine, Russia, Romania and Polish part of Silesia.
 MAZ-105 bus. |
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 MAZ-103t trolleybus in Minsk |
 MAZ-203 and MAZ-206 bus |
 Topol MAZ-7917 vehicle in Moscow on Tverskaya Street, 2008 Moscow Victory Parade rehearsal, May 5 |
 9K72 Elbrus launcher (9P117) |
 MAZ-543 airport tender, airport in Kyrgyzstan |
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Coordinates: 53°51′44″N 27°39′15″E / 53.86222°N 27.65417°E
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