Trolza
Trolza-5265 in Saint-Petersburg | |
Native name | ЗАО «ТролЗа» |
|---|---|
| Company type | Closed joint-stock company |
| Industry | Trolleybus manufacturing |
| Founded | 1868 |
| Defunct | 2020 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Trolleybuses and buses |
Number of employees | 1,798 (2011) |
| Website | www |
Trolza (Russian: ZАО "Троллейбусный завод", abbr. Тролза), formerly known as the Uritsky factory or simply Uritsky, was a trolleybus manufacturer in Russia, located in Engels, Saratov oblast.
In the Soviet era it was known as ZiU (Russian: Завод имени Урицкого, Zavod imeni Uritskogo, plant named after Moisei Uritskiy) or Uritsky factory (plant).
ZiU/Trolza has built over 65,000 trolleybuses. Historically, the most numerous models of ZiU production were the MTB-82, the ZiU-5 and the ZiU-9 (also known as the ZiU-682). The ZiU-9 is the most widely produced trolleybus in history. The factory has exported its production to various countries, including Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Greece, Mongolia, Hungary, Serbia etc.