OREANDA-NEWS. The share of exports in total sales of the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant was 11% in 2015 against 9% of a year before. The agency "AUTOSTAT" was informed about it in the press service of "Sollers".

Recall, Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant sold 48,739 vehicles in the Russian market in 2015, which is less by 2% compared with the previous year. As a result, UAZ has risen from 15th to 11th position in terms of total sales in Russia, as well as it increased significantly its market share among all passenger and commercial vehicles up to 3%. The leader of sales in 2015 was SUV UAZ "Patriot", the volume of sales of which was 19,950 vehicles (-5.3%). Success of sales of UAZ "Patriot" is due to the launch in August of 2015 of an updated version of the model.

Sales of commercial vehicles UAZ in the last year were 22,102 cars, which allowed the brand to increase the market share to 21.5% and to occupy the second place in terms of LCV sales in Russia. The greatest demand in 2015 is used by such commercial models as "Bus", "Glazed van" and "UAZ Cargo". The leader of growth was the "Bus" (UAZ 220695), whose sales grew by 50% in the last year. Also the sales of "Cargo UAZ" cars grew by 39% in 2015. In addition, sales of "glazed van UAZ" (UAZ 3741) increased by 9% compared to 2014 year.