Largest building in the world by floor area

What to remember

In Tolyatti, on the Volga, a single factory hall adds up to 6,000,000 m² of floor space: the main assembly building of AvtoVAZ, the company behind Lada cars. No building in the world has a larger floor area, and the figure counts only this main building and leaving out the smaller structures attached to it.

Which yardstick you pick matters. By volume, the winner is Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington, while the largest single uninterrupted volume belongs to the Aerium near Berlin.

The company was set up in 1966 as VAZ, short for Volga Automotive Plant in Russian. Fiat helped design the industrial site and licensed the production of Soviet versions of the Fiat 124. Its cars went by several names in the Soviet Union, including Zhiguli, Oka and Sputnik, before Lada replaced them on the Russian market in the 1990s. The company logo shows a traditional Volga boat.