According to RBC, Dmitry Kostromin, vice president for sales and marketing of the automaker, informed about this. He made a corresponding statement during the Autostat conference.
“St. Petersburg, which came to us at the end of 2022, in 2023, now, as far as you know, we gave it back to the state,” Kostromin said.
According to him, the St. Petersburg enterprise is now an independent factory unit.
In November 2023, the president and general director of AvtoVAZ, Maxim Sokolov, stated that the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg would be fully operational in 2024.
Last June it was reported that AvtoVAZ had launched production of Lada cars at the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg.