Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant

Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (Russian: Челябинский тракторный завод, romanized: Chelyabinskiy traktornyy zavod, abbreviated ЧТЗ, ChTZ) also known as CTZ-Uraltrak (ЧТЗ-УРАЛТРАК)[5] is a tractor construction plant in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.

[6] The plant was founded in 1933; the first product was a 60 hp tracked tractor C-60 (Сталинец-60, Stalinets-60) fueled by petroleum ether (Benzine).

[1] During World War II seven other industrial entities (including most of Leningrad's Kirov Plant and 15,000 of its workers[7]) were either wholly or partially relocated to Chelyabinsk, the resulting enterprise commonly known as "Танкоград" ('Tankograd', or 'Tank City').

[11][12] However the factory claims to have fulfilled an order for an unspecified number of diesel engines in December 2022.

[13] In 2023, the factory itself was sanctioned by the United States and Ukraine due to its supply of engines to Russian troops for military equipment.

ChTZ in the 1930s
1958 USSR Postage stamp, Firstborn of the Soviet industry
Bulldozer B10M (2004)