BelAZ

Belaursian Automobile Plant more known as BelAZ is a Belarusian automobile brand headquartered in Žodzina it mainly makes Dump trucks haul trucks and heavy equipement its state-owned mainly because its 100% owned by the government of Belarus.

It was founded in 1948 and was renamed to BelAZ in 1958 initially it made MAZ trucks then in 2006 Mogilev Automobile plant (MoAZ) merged into BelAZ its currently one of the largest brands of dump trucks and heavy equipment to the mining and construction industries.

 International Sanctions aganist BelAZ 
In June 2021 European Union added the company into its sanctions list due to repressions against workers who participated in mass protests against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko after the 2020 Belarusian presidential election Canada and Switzerland also sanctioned BelAZ.  and companies like Rolls-Royce and cummins ended their partnership with BelAZ. 

In 2023 the US Treasury added BelAZ and the company's CEO into the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List. then in May Ukraine also sanctioned the company.

 Models 

 Discontinued models 

 Mining dump trucks 

 MAZ-525, 25 t (1958–1965)
 BelAZ-540, 27 t (1965)
 BelAZ-540A
 BelAZ-540B, 45 t
 BelAZ-548A, 40 t (1967)
 BelAZ-548B, 65 t
 BelAZ-549, 75–80 t (1969)
 BelAZ-7519, 110–120 t (1977)
 BelAZ-7521, 180 t (1979)
 BelAZ-75211, 170–220 t (1983)
 BelAZ-75214
 BelAZ-7522
 BelAZ-75303
 BelAZ-75483

 Current model range 

 Mining dump trucks 

 BelAZ-7540, 30 t
 BelAZ-7545, 45 t
 BelAZ-7547, 42–45 t
 BelAZ-7555, 55–60 t (since 1994)
 BelAZ-7557, 90 t
 BelAZ-7513, 110–130 t (since 1996)
 BelAZ-7517, 154–160 t
 BelAZ-7530, 180–220 t
 BelAZ-7531, 240 t
 BelAZ-7560, 320–360 t
 BelAZ-7558, 90 t
 BelAZ-7571, 450 t (since 2013)

Note: New models are highlighted in bold.

 Construction & road-building vehicles 

 MoAZ-4048, front-end loader, 7.5 t
 BelAZ-7822, front-end loader, 7 t
 BelAZ-7823, Wheel dozer
 Belaz 78221 Wheel loader
 MoAZ-60148, scraper
 MoAZ-60007, scraper
 Concrete mixer trucks

 Other vehicles 

 MoAZ-75296, low-profile mining and tunneling concrete mixer truck
 BelAZ-74212, aircraft tug

 Other products 

 Articulated haulers
 Underground vehicles
 Vehicles for mine-servicing works
 Vehicles for metallurgical works
 Goods wagons: covered hoppers, open wagons, flat wagons

 References 

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