This was announced by the President of the company Maxim Sokolov.

“I will give a cautious forecast that within the next year we will not, as they say, gallop from the start to gain capacity, this is a cautious forecast of up to 10 thousand cars,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to Sokolov, if there is demand, the company is ready to increase production.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, said that the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg would resume production under the control of AvtoVAZ.

The staff of the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg will not be cut, specialists will be transferred to work in new projects of AvtoVAZ.