 Soon after that, the head engineer responsible for the construction of the new factory in Bulgaria, Aleksey Tatarinov, visited the city of Lovech, and the work on the project began.The first shipment of the complete knockdown kits, containing 900 parts each, arrived at the factory's rail ramp on October 17, 1966.The production began on October 25, 1966, and the first "Moskvitch" 408 production car left the production line at 3 p.m. on November 4, 1966.