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OREANDA-NEWS. In the first quarter of 2015 net profit of the Ulyanovsk automobile plant was almost 328 million roubles. A year earlier, the company had 632 million rouble net loss. The net profit can be associated with optimization of the company's activity and stabilization of UAZ SUV sales.

According to Za rulyom.RF, in January-March 2015 UAZ managed to increase its proceeds 1.6 times to 4.4 billion roubles, but the sales loss came up to 132.7 million roubles vs. 1.292 million roubles a year ago. Due to the difficult economic situation, the company reduced the cost of research and development and investment projects almost 4 times to 45.9 million roubles.

During the first quarter of 2015 the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant sold 7,478 vehicles in Russia, which is 12% less than for the same period last year. The market leader is the updated UAZ Patriot SUV with 3,471 vehicles sold (-0.6%).