The plant of LLC Volkswagen Group Rus is located in the Grabtsevo tech park in the city of Kaluga, 170 kilometers to the south-west of Moscow. The total area of the plant is 2,100,000 square meters. The plant has all the facilities required for production, including a body shop, a paint shop and an assembly unit, as well as its own railway sidings. In addition, Volkswagen and ŠKODA models are produced at Nizhny Novgorod under a contract with GAZ, a company of the Basic Element Group. An engine production unit is located at Kaluga. The plant produces 1.6-litre EA211 gasoline engine. The engines are to be used for the Volkswagen Polo and the ŠKODA Rapid produced in Kaluga, as well as for the ŠKODA Octavia, ŠKODA Karoq and Volkswagen Taos, built jointly with GAZ in Nizhny Novgorod.
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Volkswagen Group inaugurates its own engine plant in Russia
Following three years of construction, the Volkswagen Group today inaugurated its new engine plant at Kaluga in the presence of the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Thomas Schmall, Member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand responsible for Components, and the Governor of Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov. In future, the plant will produce the newly developed 1.6-litre EA211 gasoline engine, representing the most modern engine technology of the Volkswagen Group. The engines are to be used for the Volkswagen Polo and the ŠKODA Rapid produced in Kaluga, as well as for the Volkswagen Jetta and the ŠKODA Octavia and Yeti, built jointly with GAZ in Nizhny Novgorod. The annual production capacity of the engine plant will be about 150,000 units. The total investment in the plant has been about €250 million and 400 jobs in the region have been created. Volkswagen is the first foreign automaker to operate its own engine plant in Russia.