OREANDA-NEWS. November 29, 2011. AutoVAZ plans to conquer the markets of CIS countries, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and developing countries, said the president of AutoVAZ, Igor Komarov. He noted that in 2011 AutoVAZ increased the exports to CIS countries by 20%. For the first ten months of 2011 AutoVAZ exported 42,448 cars - by 29.1% over the previous year. Besides the best-selling model of AutoVAZ in foreign markets was Lada Samara – 12,282 cars of this type were delivered in January-October, which represents 28.9% of the total exports of AutoVAZ.

According to the president of the automaker, AutoVAZ now is already gradually raising the question of entering foreign markets. "I think that we will have also projects of assembling capacities increasing in CIS countries. We will look at Ukraine and Kazakhstan at first"- said Mr. Komarov.