OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2012. The NEFAZ-52994 passenger bus has become a prize winner of 100 Best Goods of Russia’2012.

The award ceremony of the competition took place in Ufa. Deputy Prime Minister of Bashkortostan Dmitry Sharonov presented the winners with prizes.

This year’s prize-winner is the NEFAZ-52994 city bus on the KAMAZ-52974 chassis with the Cummins engine. It is designed to carry 96 passengers and equipped with 24 seats. The bus is adapted for disabled passengers. It features a ramp in the middle doorway, a platform with a support panel for a wheelchair, and four soft seats for physically challenged people.

JSC Neftekamsk Automobile Plant, KAMAZ’s subsidiary, is Russia’s largest producer of superstructures on KAMAZ chassis. Products of the plant have been taking part in the competition 100 Best Goods of Russia for 12 years. They became laureates nine times and prize-winners three times. During this period of time, the company presented 19 models – passenger buses, drop-side semitrailers, and tank semitrailers.