“Together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade and AvtoVAZ, we agreed to protect the interests of the workforce.

Those social guarantees that were present at this enterprise today, they will be fully observed, ”TASS quotes him as saying.

Beglov added that 2,000 jobs will be fully preserved.

Earlier, AvtoVAZ CEO Maxim Sokolov announced the launch of production of Lada cars at the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg in 2023.