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Likhachev Plant celebrated its 95-th anniversary. During the period from 1924 when the company started the car manufacture, it was the producing about 8 million vehicles, which were trucks, cars, buses, each of the models embodied his era. Many models, such as trucks ZIS-5, ZIS-150, ZIL-157, ZIL-130, ZIL-131 without exaggeration have become legends of the domestic auto industry. Alas, the current situation on ZIL AMO caused concern about the Russian automotive communities. However, plant-hero of day management looks to the future with optimism. Here is what Igor Zakharov, who is general director of ZIL AMO, says: "Due to the active support of the Government of Moscow the oldest car company of the country rebuilds. Today, we are committed to stable operation of the plant departments; there is the program of attracting of new dealers to increase sales volume". In order to preserve the industrial plant potential by Moscow government together with the enterprise the program of the modernization of the plant has developed, implementation of which will keep the brand ZIL, provide jobs and resume the design developments of new competitive models.