
The first release of ZAZ-1102 "Tavria"
1987, 27 min
State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1987.
Telefilm "Zaporozhets. "Big Problems of a Small Car" is dedicated to the restructuring of the organizational, economic and production life of the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant "Kommunar", and preparation for the serial release of a new car.
On the video: car manufacturing, various workshops of the plant; test drive of the car; production of ZAZ-1102 "Tavria" cars, the first batch; comments from the management about the plant workers and the team; plant workers singing songs to the guitar; design of new cars at the factory; celebration; various stages of production of "Tavria".
Comments: General Director of AvtoZAZ Stepan Kravchun; foreman Kavun L.M.; workers Korsun I.A., Samarsky S.G.; design engineer Cherepanov A.I.
The film is dubbed in russian languages.
Reference: LLC "ZAZ" is a Ukrainian automobile plant with a full production cycle, located in Zaporizhzhia. The enterprise has a history since 1863, and the production of cars began in 1960 from the model "Zaporozhets". Today "ZAZ" specializes in the assembly of cars and the production of buses, maintaining the status of one of the main machine-building enterprises of Ukraine.
ZAZ-1102 "Tavria" is a front-wheel drive passenger car with a hatchback body, the serial production of which began in 1987 at the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant. The model became one of the most popular and widespread small cars in Ukraine and the late USSR.