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The history of the Minsk Automobile Plant began in 1944, when in the liberated Minsk, on the site of German repair shops, they began to assemble and repair American trucks supplied to the USSR under Lend-Lease. In August 1945, a resolution of the State Defense Committee (GKO) “On the restoration and development of the automobile industry of the USSR” was issued and a decision was made to build a plant for the production of heavy vehicles in Minsk. And in 1947, the production of heavy vehicles was transferred here from Yaroslavl. YaAZ-205 dump trucks and YaAZ-210 flatbed trucks become MAZ-200, and the bear figure on the hood is replaced with a bison profile on the sidewall.
It was with these machines that the history of MAZ, such as we know it today, began.
An important detail is that the production of only two-axle models was transferred to Belarus, and the same type of three-axle vehicles were sent to the Ukrainian Kremenchug, where the KrAZ brand originated. The YaAZ plant itself was reoriented to the production of cargo two-stroke diesel engines (under an American license): four-cylinder engines were intended for MAZ, and six-cylinder engines went to KrAZ.
