Volgograd Tractor Plant

Volgograd Tractor Plant

Native name	Russian: Волгоградский тракторный завод
Type	Open joint-stock company
Industry	Machinery, Defence
Founded	1930 (1930)
Headquarters	Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Russia
Area served	worldwide
Products	Tractors, Artillerys, Combat vehicles
Revenue	RUB 873 million (2011)
Net income	RUB 229 million (2011)
Parent	Concern Tractor Plants
Website	www.vgtz.com

The Volgograd Tractor Plant (Russian: Волгоградский тракторный завод, Volgogradski traktorni zavod, or ВгТЗ, VgTZ), formerly the Dzerzhinskiy Tractor Factory or the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, is a heavy equipment factory located in Volgograd, Russia. It was a site of fierce fighting during World War II's Battle of Stalingrad.

History

Until 1961, the Volgograd Tractor Plant was called the Stalingrad Tractor Plant named for Dzerzhinsky (Russian: Сталинградский тракторный завод им. Ф. Э. Дзержинского, Stalingradski traktorni zavod im. F.E. Dzerzhinskogo, or СТЗ,. The plant was built in one of the first industrial sites that were built according to the plans of rapid industrialization of the USSR, adopted in the late 1920s. The construction of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant was carried out with the assistance of Western countries, primarily the United States. The plant produces tractors and military equipment. During World War II, the plant was retooled to produce equipment for the Red Army, most notably the T-34 tank. It became world-famous during the Battle of Stalingrad for being the site of fierce fighting.

In December 2002 the plant was divided into four separate companies within the Group:

• Tractor Company VgTZ (Traktornaya kompaniya VgTZ)
• Russian Machine Building Components (Rossiyskiye mashinostroitel’nyye komponenty)
• Territory of Commercial Development (Territoriya promyshlennogo raszvitiya)
• Volgograd Tractor Plant (Volgogradski traktorni zavod)

There is also a separate production facility for production of military technology projects Volgograd Machine Building Company VgTZ (Volgogradskaya mashinostroitel’naya kompaniya VgTZ).

As an incorporated entity the plant was recognised as bankrupt in 2005.^[1] Is the successor of the plant Tractor Company "VgTZ", which is a concern "Tractor Plants".

Products

Military vehicles

• T-34 (1940–44)
• STZ NATI Artillery Tractor (1937–42)
• PT-76 (1951–67)
• BMD-1
• BMD-2
• BMD-3
• BMD-4 (2004–present)
• 2S25 Sprut-SD

• 
  Т-34
• 
  Katusha BM-13 STZ-5-NATI
• 
  PT-76
• 
  BMD-4

Tractors

• STZ-3 (1937–49)
• DT-54 (1949–63)
• DT-75 (1963–present)
• VT-100 (1990s–present)
• Agromash 90TG (2009–present)
• Agromash 315TG

• 
  STZ-NATI
• 
  DT-54
• 
  DT-75 tractor of early production in Poland
• 
  DT-75
• 
  VT-100

Gallery

• 
  Volgograd Tractor Factory in 1930s
• 
  Volgograd Tractor Factory
• 
  Volgograd Tractor Factory

See also

• Soviet tank factories
• Soviet armored fighting vehicle production during World War II

References

Further reading

• Melnikova-Raich, Sonia (2010). "The Soviet Problem with Two 'Unknowns': How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part I: Albert Kahn". IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology. 36 (2): 57–80. ISSN 0160-1040. JSTOR 41933723.  (abstract)

External links

• Official website (in Russian)

Coordinates: 48°48′0.7″N 44°36′37.03″E / 48.800194°N 44.6102861°E / 48.800194; 44.6102861