 In February 1987, the management of the "Balkan" factory, led by the then-managing director Baldzhiev, visited the AZLK to discuss the assembly of the new model "Moskvitch-2141".During the series of meetings held with their Soviet counterparts, the Bulgarians expressed their desire to switch to a progressive assembly of 40% of the components of the car, with annual shipments of 50,000 complete knock-down kits by the Soviets; however, the managing director of the AZLK Kolomnikov indicated that his factory could not provide such a number of kits.The Bulgarian experts therefore concluded that a prospective assembly of the "Moskvitch" 2141 on the basis of the 15,000 (maximum 20,000) complete knockdown kits offered by the Soviets would be unprofitable and unfeasible.