[6]: 277 [5]: 323  These were put to local mares; some Brabançon, Percheron and Orlov Trotter blood was also introduced.

By 1937 the breed was re-established;[5]: 323  the name was changed in 1952 to "Russkii Tyazhelovoz" or "Russian Heavy Draft".

[6]: 277  In the 1980s a population of almost fifty thousand was recorded,[5]: 272  distributed in many parts of the Soviet Union – in Byelorussia, the North Caucasus, Udmurtia and Ukraine, in Western Siberia, and in the oblasts of Archangel, Kirov, Perm, Sverdlovsk and Vologda.

The legs are short in comparison to the length of the body, and have little or no feathering;[6]: 277  cannon-bone circumference is approximately 22 cm.

Stallions have a fertility rate in the range of 80–85 percent, and may continue to stand at stud after the age of twenty.