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Ukrainian Automobile Corporation (UkrAVTO - УкрАВТО; in Ukrainian: Українська Автомобільна Корпорація, Russian: Украинская автомобильная корпорация) is a Ukrainian automobile manufacturing and service company, as well as Ukraine's largest automobile distributor.

UkrAVTO owns the largest network of service stations, auto dealerships, fuel stations, manufacturing and assembling facilities in Ukraine. It currently manufactures cars for General Motors (particularly models originally designed for GM Daewoo) and assembles cars for Dacia.

UkrAVTO also builds cars under its own name, particularly the ZAZ Tavria and ZAZ Tavria models - lines it inherited from the Soviet era.

It also acts as Ukrainian distributor and authorised service organisation for a number of foreign car, car parts and accessories manufacturers, including DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Dacia, Dongfeng Motors and Tata Motors.

History

It was founded in 1969 as the Ukraine Motor Vehicles Maintenance Department - a reorganisation of diverse car manufacturing, parts, sales and maintenance agencies in the former Ukrainian SSR.

It was restuctured after Ukraininan independence and fully privatised in 1995.

In 2002, it took over the other major Ukrainian automobile concerns ZAZ and AvtoZAZ, after the bankruptcy of Daewoo Motors. The resulting merged ZAZ division is the largest subsidiary of UkrAVTO.