The company started 31 December 1964, with Minavtoprom (the Soviet agency responsible for the automotive industry, to licence-produce the RAF-977 at a local forklift plant).[3] In 1965, the first team of 66 people was created and in the beginning to serve Russian and Ukrainian manufacturers.[4] On 10 September 1965, the company moved to its first factory. The first vehicle, known as the ErAZ-762 (known as Yeraz [Dream]), was built 1 May 1966, assembling parts produced elsewhere.[4] Production the first year was 1000 of the plant's design capacity of 2,500 vehicles per year.[4] Early products had payloads of 800 kg (1,800 lb) and 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). They are vans and furgons, which were produced for the needs of the Armenian country and other republics in USSR.
The company built an improve ErAZ-762A beginning in 1969.[4] Production climbed to 6,500 a year by 1973, and reached 12,000 in 1975, due to installation of a genuine assembly line, one of the Soviet Union's first of its kind.[4]
ErAZ designers began work on an all-new van, the ErAZ-3730, in 1971, following the lead of the Commer and Dodge Walk Thru.[4] The first trials models were assembled in 1976; they never entered production, due to a lack of funds.[4]
The ErAZ-762B appeared in 1976.[5]
In 1982, the company produced its 100,000-th vehicle.
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