Agricultural machinery in theSoviet Union has had a presence since the beginning of the union in the 1920s however many developments in this industry occurred during the USSR's existence such as the opening of domestic factories for agricultural equipment beginning in the 1930s, the mass-mechanization of collective farms, and the import of foreign equipment following the collapse of the USSR in 1991

The domestic production and research ofAgricultural machinery in Russia began in the mid 1800s when Artisans Andrei Terentyev and Moses Creek created the first Russianthreshing machine. Some other events of note include:

• 1888 - MechanicFyodor Blinov builds the world's first model of acrawler tractor.
• 1893 - Yakov Mamin invents the plow with two plowshares.
• 1910 - Yakov Mamin created a tractor named"Dwarf", later known as the"Russian tractor".

In 1917 there were approximately 165 tractors across the entirety of Russia, this reflects the lack of industrialization present in the country as theMass production of agricultural equipment such as tractors only started in the 1930s. After theBolsheviks took control of the nation following theRussian Civil War, production of agricultural machinery on an industrial scale began.

• 1918 - At aPetrograd factory, the Bolsheviks organized small-scale production of crawler tractors.
• 1921 - TheSoviet Government issued a decree "On agricultural engineering".

Following the revolution there was a dramatic change in the agricultural industry as the government pushed a change to Collective Farms which necessitated the introduction of mass-mechanization. Examples of factories include Kolomna,Kharkiv Locomotive Factory, and the Obukhov plant. Most of the production for tractors occurred at the "Red Putilovets" which produced a derivative of theFordson tractor. TheZAZ produced the first domestic harvesters.

• 1926 - Production started for tractor cultivators that could do continuous tillage .
• 1928 - Production of tractor plows began and the nation at this point has produced 1,300 tractors .
• 1933 - Commissioned in 1930, theStalingrad Tractor Factory began producing tractors with a capacity of 144 tractors a day. This marked the true beginning of mass-production of tractors in the USSR.
• 1931 - TheKharkiv Tractor Plant was built.
• 1932 - Production of tractor potato harvesters began.
• 1933 - TheChelyabinsk Tractor Plant was built.
• 1937 - The USSR produced 44,000 units of combine harvesters this year which represented the largest such production on Earth, the U.S in comparison only produced 29,000 units that same year.
• 1937 - TheS-65 tractor began production which was the first tractor in the USSR with a closed cab.

By the beginning of theGreat Patriotic War in 1941, the Soviet Union was the largest producer of crawler tractors in the world. The war greatly affected the entire nation including the production of agricultural machinery which was heavily disrupted by the destruction of several factories and the relocation of others to the eastern areas of the Union. Furthermore the economy changed to primarily support the war effort until the production of tractors resumed in 1944. After the war concluded, many more advancements in the agricultural industry followed as the USSR rebuilt.

• 1947 - TheS-4, the first domestic self-propelled combine harvester began production.
• 1948 - TheMinsk Tractor Works started production of the first Soviet skidderKT-12.
• 1956 - TheS-100, the first industrial tractor began production.
• 1957 - TheDET-250, the first Soviet high-power industrial tractordiesel-electric drive began production.
• 1960 - TheSoviet Union had the largest production of tractors in the world .
• 1975 - TheT-330, the first Soviet tractor-bulldozer with a front cabin began production.
• 1983 - TheT-800, Europe's largest tractor began production. It was designed to work as a crawler dozer, it weighed 106 tons. (without blade length - 7945 mm, with blade -12 400 mm, width without blade -4185 mm, Width -6000 mm blade height -4775 mm.).
• 1991 - USSR collapses, many factories either close or are privatized.
• 2001 - The state-owned companyRosagroleasing is established to provide support for agricultural producers and to support leasing program.
• 2003 - ConcernTractor plants was founded, uniting the main Russian producers of tractors.

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  Stalinets S-65 (1937-1941)
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Name	Location	Year established	Types of tractors	Models of tractors	Current status
Altay Tractor plant (ATZ)	Rubtsovsk,Russian SFSR	1942	Agricultural and industrial crawler tractors, crawler skidders	T-4A, TT-4	Went bankrupt in 2011
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ)	Chelyabinsk,Russian SFSR	1933	Agricultural and industrial crawler tractors	T-130, DET-250	Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in the corporationUralvagonzavod
Cheboksary Industrial Tractor Plant (ChZPT)	Cheboksary,Russian SFSR	1975	heavy industrial crawler tractor to work as bulldozers	T-330	"Promtractor" plant within the group "Tractor plants"
Vladimir Tractor plant (VTZ)	Vladimir,Russian SFSR	1945	Agricultural wheeled tractors	T-25	Vladimir Motor-Tractor Plant (VMTZ) within the group "Tractor plants"
Lipetsk Tractor plant (LTZ)	Lipetsk,Russian SFSR	1944	Agri-transport tired tractors	T-40	"Lipetsk tractor" plant within the group "Tractor plants", closed since 2009
Kirov Plant	Leningrad,Russian SFSR	1801	Heavy wheeled tractor general purpose terrain	Kirovets K-700	Kirov Plant Company
Volgograd tractor factory (VTZ)	Volgograd,Russian SFSR	1930	Track general purpose agricultural tractors	DT-75	"Tractor Company "VgTZ" within the group "Tractor plants"
Onega Tractor Plant (OTZ)	Petrozavodsk,Karelia,Russian SFSR	1703	tracked skidders	TDT-55	Onega Tractor Plant within the group "Tractor plants"
Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ)	Minsk,Byelorussia	1946	general purpose wheel tractors	MTZ-082 Belarus, MTZ-50 Belarus, MTZ-52 Belarus, MTZ-80 Belarus, MTZ-82 Belarus	Minsk Tractor Works
Kharkiv Tractor Plant (KhTZ)	Kharkiv,Ukraine	1931	tracked and wheeled tractors high-speed all-terrain multi-purpose	T-150, T-74	Kharkiv Tractor Plant
Pivdenmash	Dnipropetrovsk,Ukraine	1944	Agricultural wheeled universally-tilled and transport tractors	YuMZ-6	Pivdenmash, currently does not produce tractors
Chisinau Tractor Plant	Kishinev,Moldavia	1961	beet, viticultural, horticultural crawler tractor with a narrow track	T-54, T-70	ceased production
Kharkiv Tractor propelled chassis	Kharkiv,Ukraine	1949	wheeled tractor self-propelled chassis for mounting bodies and special equipment	T-16	Plant self-propelled chassis
Pavlodar Tractor plant	Pavlodar,Kazakhstan	1966	Track general purpose agricultural tractors	DT-75	Went bankrupt in 1998
Tashkent Tractor Plant (TTZ)	Tashkent,Uzbekistan	1942	wheeled cotton tractors (including tricycles)	T-28Kh2, T-28Kh4, MTZ-50Kh	Tashkent Tractor Plant

Name	Location	Year Established	Types of harvesters	Models of harvesters	Current status
Rostselmash	Rostov-on-Don	1929	combine harvesters	SK-5 Niva	Company "Rostselmash"
Krasnoyarsk Combine Plant	Krasnoyarsk,Russian SFSR	1942	combine harvesters	SKD-5 "Sibiryak"	Joined the group "Tractor Plants", was closed in 2013.
Taganrog Combine Plant	Taganrog,Russian SFSR	1915	Rice-harvesters on crawlers, combine harvesters wheeled	SKGD-6 "Kolos", SK-6II "Kolos"	at its base in 1997 was founded Taganrog Automobile Plant (TagAZ), the production combines discontinued in 2002
Ryazselmash	Ryazan,Russian SFSR	1905	semi-mounted potato harvesters for building with tractors	KKU-2A "Druzhba"	Ryazan Combine Plant, the production is not engaged, the building leased
GOMSELMASH	Gomel,Byelorussia	1930	foragers, trailed forage harvesters	KSK-100, KS-2,6	GOMSELMASH
Dalselmash	Birobidzhan,Russian SFSR	1938	forage harvesters crawler	KSG-3,2	The plant went bankrupt in 2002
Yaroslavl Motor Plant (YaMZ)	Yaroslavl,Russian SFSR	1916	foragers	YaSK-170	Yaroslavl Motor Plant composed ofGAZ Group
Ternopil Combine Plant	Ternopil,Ukraine		beet harvesters	KS-6	Ternopol Combine Plant
Kherson Combine Plant	Kherson,Ukraine	1887	self-propelled harvesters corn, trailed harvesters corn	KSKU-6 "Khersonetz-200", KOP-1,4 "Khersonetz-7"	Scientific-Production Enterprise "Kherson Machine-Building Plant"
Bezhetskselmash	Bezhetsk,Russian SFSR	1943	flax pullers	LK-4	Bezhetskselmash
Plodselhozmash	Kishinev,Moldavia		harvesters cabbage, tomatoes, grapes, fruits and berries	UKM-2, SKT-2A, SVK-3M, MPyA-1A	Agromasina

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