Semko S. N., Chief Designer of Underground and Building-road Technical, e-mail: moaz-ogk@mail.ru; Matsukov E. A., Chief of Design Office of the General Configurations; Scientific and Technical Center of “Belarusian Autoworks”

In 2003 the Unitary Republican enterprise “MogilyovAutoworks named after S. M. Kirova” was a part of Production association “Belarusian Autoworks”. The Mogilyov Autoworks factory in July, 2010 of year hasn'ted the 75 anniversary and is one of the oldest industrial enterprises of Byelorussia. Created originally as factory on manufacture of aviation engines, the factory was repeatedly reorientated, and since 1960 is engaged in working out and manufacture of various building-road and underground cars, and also the special technics. By this time at factory release about 50 models and updatings of wheel cars of different function is developed and mastered. Among them: self-propelled scrapers, off-road dump-body trucks and cars for underground works, face-to-face loaders and bulldozers on their base, concrete mixers and other technics. The majority of them are intended for work in crosscountry conditions thanks to the accepted design: a drive on all wheels with uniform division of capacity into leading bridges, possibility of interwheel and interaxal blocking, application of tires of low pressure with a protector of the raised passableness, the sharnirno-jointed design of a frame. In time the past after publication of the previous articles in “Gornyi Zhurnal” (“Mining Journal”) considerable work on modernization and release new well proved in the countries of near and far abroad of cars from easily soiled MOAZ is done.

1. Trukhnov L. I., Korostelev S. I., Urbanovich A. S. Gornyi Zhurnal — Mining Journal, 2008, No. 9, pp. 19–23.