AvtoVAZ (Volzhskiy Avtomobil'nyi Zavod, Volga Automobile Plant) is a Russian, formerly Soviet automobile plant, based in Tolyatti.
VAZ
1970 (prototype)
On first radiator screens of VAZ-2101, based on Fiat 124, wasn't any logo, but the company needed trademark, so Soviet designer V. Antipin drawn the prototype of the logo based on Fiat's one.[1]
1970-1993
1970 (prototype)
Later, A. Dekalenkov, designed 3 new prototypes of the logo (first one is on the picture). On the logos was a lodia ship in the shape of a cyrillic V, standing for Volga river, that is factory placed near it.
1970 (unused)
Designer Yuriy Danilov updated prototype and Dekalenkov didn't like it, but it should've became first official VAZ logo.
1970
On first VAZ 2101's appeared a logo with "TOLYATTI" written on it, it is unknown who added it, on first 30 cars FIAT accidently write "ТОЛЬRТТИ", instead of "ТОЛЬЯТТИ", mistaking latin "r" with cyrillic "ya".
1970
On next 1970 cars "TOLYATTI" was written right.
1971, 1972
On later cars word "TOLYATTI" was removed.
1972-1980
1980-1984
1984-1993
AvtoVAZ
1993-2015
1993-2002
New logo was designed by Vladislav Pashko.
2002-2007
2007-2015
2015-present
1st April 2015 team of main AvtoVAZ' designer Steve Mattin launched the new logo.