Wednesday 5th November 1958
The first MAZ 525 truck was produced at the Byelorussian Automobile Factory in Zhodino, USSR (now Belarus). Development started in 1949 at the Yaroslavl Automobile Plant Design Bureau. The project was called YaAZ-225. It was planned to install an offset to the left of the cabin YaAZ-200. However, further technical documentation passed on MAZ truck where the design has been substantially enhanced.
In 1959, production was transferred to the Belarusian Automobile Plant, where the truck was produced until 1967 under the name BelAZ-525. At the same time with the side plate disappeared “MAZ” bison, and an inscription on the hood “BELAZ”. In the same year, on the basis of the truck was developed in Zhodino tractor BelAZ-525A to work in the train with a 45-ton semitrailer BelAZ-5271. However, in a series of truck would not go.
Operation of machines continued until the early 1970s. MAZ-525 participated in virtually every major Soviet construction sites 1950-1960-s. As well as in overseas construction projects (e.g. in the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt).
