Ural Motorcycles Will No Longer Be Produced in Kazakhstan

The manufacturer has announced that assembly of the motorcycle models previously produced in Petropavlovsk will be discontinued, Orda.kz reports.

Ural Motorcycles president Ilya Khait announced the end of production of the company’s classic models in an official statement. The message does not explicitly say that production in Petropavlovsk is ending, but Khait notes that final assembly of the classic models was moved to Kazakhstan in 2022, and it is this production that is now being halted.

More precisely, as Khait wrote, it is being “put on pause,” and he does not know when the pause might end.

However, operating between two countries - one under sanctions and another with almost no infrastructure for a business like ours - proved to be extremely complicated. By late 2024, it was clear that this setup couldn’t last: we were losing money with every bike we built. Khait said in the statement.

Then, in April 2025, the tariffs hit. Now not only was manufacturing inefficient - selling our motorcycles in our main market, the United States, had become nearly impossible.

Khait said moving production to the United States would also be unprofitable, as it would require multimillion-dollar investments.

Production of the classic models will continue at the plant in Irbit, in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, but only in limited quantities and solely for the Russian market.

The key for restoring the production, if it ever becomes possible, is to maintain documentation, equipment, tooling and, most importantly, our experienced engineers and skilled workers. We will be doing everything we can for as long as we can to support this infrastructure.  

Final assembly of Ural motorcycles was moved from Irbit to Petropavlovsk in the spring of 2022, after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time, it was announced that the Petropavlovsk plant would produce up to 1,000 motorcycles a year.

Original Author: Igor Ulitin