Avtodiesel (Yaroslavl Diesel Engine Plant)

The plant was established in 1916 by the Russian industrialist V. А. Lebedev. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the plant produced the country’s first diesel vehicles.

Since 1958, Yaroslavl Motor Plant has specialised in developing and producing diesel engines and powertrains for a wide variety of applications. Since that time, the Yaroslavl plant has supplied more than 4 million engines to the international and domestic markets.

The YAMZ brand includes the following products:

Two ranges of 6-, 8- and 12-cylinder engines with outputs of between 150 and 800 hp, including 60 basic models and more than 250 configurations;
7 models (30 configurations) of 5-, 8- and 9-speed gearboxes;
2 types (15 configurations) of clutch system;
More than 1000 spare parts for all models of engine and powertrain;
Stationary power-generating assemblies for the operation of pumps, compressors and drilling rigs, based on 60-475 kW YAMZ diesel engines.
All basic versions of engines for automobiles and buses comply with the international ECE UN environmental standards Euro 1 and Euro 2.

YAMZ diesel engines have long since been respected for their excellent operational capabilities:

Reliability and economy when working in a wide range of climatic conditions;
Ease of maintenance and a high level of serviceability;
Run for a long time before major repairs become necessary (up to 800,000 kilometres or 10–12,000 running hours).
Engines from Yaroslavl have been used by leading Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian companies in the production of more than 300 different types of product.

Today they are used particularly in the production of the following products:

Automobiles, road trains, truck tractors, dump trucks, timber trucks, truck cranes;
Heavy-duty dump trucks, scrapers, underground road trains, airfield tractors;
Industrial and agricultural tractors, front-end loaders, bulldozers, pipe-laying machines;
Grain- and fodder-harvesting combines;
Excavators, cranes, road rollers;
Motor graders;
Railway track machines, railway cars;
Buses;
Diesel-electric power units and aggregates, compressor plants, pumping plants, motor boats; snow-clearing and municipal vehicles, forestry equipment, snow- and swamp-going vehicles, fire engines, marine installations;
etc.

The plant boasts highly qualified engineering and technical personnel, well-developed design facilities and a high-performance, highly experienced production department, which allows the company to constantly expand the fields of application of its engines, and above all to work on further advancing its technology.

The high quality of Yaroslavl engines has been recognised in prestigious international contests time and time again.