OREANDA-NEWS. Ten plants of car production in Russia announced that they plan to make their work on the eve of the New Year holidays and the beginning of 2016.

Kaluga plant "PSMA Rus" will reduce by one day the work week the next year. This mode will be introduced by the company from February 1st to July 31st, 2016 (in order to preserve jobs). Working days are Monday -Thursday.

AvtoVAZ from February 15th, 2016 for six months enters four-day working week instead of the current five-day. Reduced week – is a part of the anti-crisis program to reduce costs against a decline in demand for cars in Russia.

Izhevsk plant leaves for New Year "vacation" from December 29th, 2015 and it runs the assembly lines after the corporate vacation on January 13th, 2016. A little earlier start of the New Year holidays due to the fact that the production plan is executed. With regard to the operation of the plant in January and February, then it is "in different industries happen in different ways, depending on the load," - said Mr. Baditsa.

KAMAZ until the end of 2015 is working normally, but the shorter week could be used in 2016 - in the case of a reduction of orders, said the representative of the plant.

Nissan warned that in the spring of 2016 at a plant in St. Petersburg it introduces one shift instead of two, which would made a reduction of about 500 jobs.

"Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus" plans to work steadily in three shifts five days a week. No changes and cuts are not in sight yet. The end of the Christmas holidays at the plant is scheduled on January 21st. Prior to that, the plant will have the installation of necessary equipment for the production of new models. "We have no plans to reduce staff, the number of shifts or working days," - the Head of Public Relations, Maria Maltseva informed the agency "AUTOSTAT".

GM-AvtoVAZ will stop the car production for the winter corporate holidays, which will last from December 22nd, 2015 untill January 17th, 2016, inclusively.

Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant will stop the production on December 31st and it will have a winter vacation until January 10th inclusively, then it will begin a corporate vacation and it will last until February 1st, 2016. During this period, the company will continue to work on realization of investment projects and prevention of equipment.

Ford Sollers joint venture started its Christmas break earlier than others. From December 15th until the end of January holidays the company stops the production at the plant in the SEZ "Alabuga" in Tatarstan - because of falling demand for cars. It has already been stopped for the winter holidays the pants in Vsevolozhsk and in Naberezhnye Chelny.

At the plant Toyota in St. Petersburg (Branch of "Toyota Motor"), as the company "AUTOSTAT" was informed by the representatives of the enterprise, the traditional New Year holidays are scheduled from December 31st, 2015 until January 10th, 2016, inclusively. The plant is operating currently normally. Changes in the work schedule are not planned.