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OREANDA-NEWS. Yesterday, AvtoVAZ reopened the assembly line, stopped on December 31st for the New Year holidays and weekly corporate holiday. Directorate of Public Relations of automaker informed about it the agency "Interfax-Volga".

On Monday the joint venture “GM-AvtoVAZ" also came out of corporate holidays. The company resumed normal operations, said the press service of the joint venture.

Recall AvtoVAZ and “GM-AvtoVAZ" suspended the work from December 31st to January 18th. It was noted that over the Christmas holidays at these companies it was followed a single corporate holiday, which lasted from January 12th to 18th.

Izhevsk plant on Monday also resumed the production after the regulated holiday and it intends to make the plan of 3235 vehicles in January, company representative informed the agency "Interfax-Volga".

"Izhevsk plant on January 19th came out of corporate holiday after the all necessary maintenance of lines and production sites. It starts to work in full mode and full strength,” - said the official.

Earlier it was reported that in 2015, Izhevsk Automobile Plant plans to increase car production to 106 thousand units, which is almost one and a half times more than in 2014. This includes two models of Nissan, Lada Granta Liftback, Lada Vesta, Lada Granta sedan for persons with disabilities, as well as ordinary sedan Lada Granta, which the company will produce periodically, depending on market needs.

In addition, Ford Sollers plant in Vsevolozhsk resumed work after the holidays and downtime, the press service of the joint venture informed the agency "Interfax". On December 10th, 2014 was declared as a simple in the company, followed by the collective winter vacation. The start of assembly line was scheduled for January 12th, 2015, but the company decided to extend simple for another week. The press service of Ford Sollers explained the long stops of the conveyor by the preparation of the enterprise for the production of the new Ford Mondeo and updated Focus.

Recall from June 2014 Vsevolozhvsk plant Ford Sollers moved to single-shift work, 700 people were laid off. The decision to optimize costs and production schedule was made "in connection with serious changes in the economic situation in Russia, in particular, the devaluation of the ruble, the slowdown in consumer activity in the market of new cars, as well as in response to a significant drop in demand for cars C-segment, informed the company.

In the first half of 2015 at the plant of the Leningrad region it is scheduled to begin the production of the new generation model Ford Mondeo, this summer – the updated Focus. Ford opened a plant in the Leningrad region in summer of 2002. The company produces cars Focus in three versions, as well as Mondeo sedan.