OREANDA-NEWS. On 08 July 2008 was announced, that according to the decision of the education committee of Federal Agency from April 25th in May there will be concluded state contracts with GAZ Group to delivery of 750 of 11-seated buses “GAZelle” including 33 heated buses specially for utmost North regions, and also 400 of four-wheel drive GAZelles including 42 northern variants of minibuses.

The delivery will be effected by 30 of Nov in 76 federal regions in the sum of 587,500,000 rubles.

There is a great demand for compact school buses in Russia due to the fact that till 2008 there was no certified minibuses for children transportation in the country. GAZelle is the first Russian minibus complying with the State Standard for children transportation.