Minsk Tractor Works

MTZ-2 (1954-1958) tractor near Minsk Tractor Works. Minsk, Belarus.

MTZ-5 (1957-1972)

MTZ-52 (1962-1985)

MTZ-80 (since 1974)

Main assembly line

The plant was established on 29 May 1946. The first tractor, the MTZ-2 model, was manufactured on October 14, 1953.

As of 2005, it had nearly 20,000 workers. The plant produces over 62 models of vehicles. Its main civil production has been four-wheeled tractors of model "MTZ", known as Belarus. By 1995 the plant had manufactured 3,000,000 tractors. In 1999, it produced 58% of all tractors manufactured in the CIS. In 2017, its share in the production of wheel tractors in CIS countries was 87%.[1]

MTZ tractors were exported to Western Europe, too.

In 2013, the plant tractors were certified in the US by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and in Canada by Environment Canada and received full approval for their import and distribution in both countries. Since 2010, distribution of Belarus tractors in the US and Canada is carried on through a local distributor, MTZ Equipment Ltd.[2]

In 2015, MTZ produced 2,424 tractors, an increase of 45% compared to the previous year (1,648 tractors).[3]

In 2017, 92.1% tractors of 31,011 produced were exported. Eight countries imported more than 500 "Belarus" tractors: Russia (11,135), Pakistan (4,845), Ukraine (4,028), Kazakhstan (2,106), Azerbaijan (1,637), Hungary (871), Romania (812), Lithuania (736).[1]

In 2020, after the Presidential elections, police brutality, and the mass torture of protesters, the workers of MTZ joined the national strike and opposition.[4][5]

In 2022, Canada and Ukraine imposed sanctions on MTZ.[6]

• MTZ plant
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• Saint Petersburg[7]

Joint assembly production of MTZ tractors began in 2013 in Cambodia, at MTZ's first assembly plant in the ASEAN region. Tractors are now exported to all ASEAN countries. [8]

Until 2010 Minsk Tractor Works was a sponsor of a Belarusian Premier League football team MTZ-RIPO Minsk. Games were played at Traktor stadium, which is located near the plant.

The Palace of Culture of the plant hosts the ballroom Dance Club Mara.[9]

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, A video showed a Belarus-82.1 pulling a captured Russian MT-LB.

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  MTZ-82.1 tractor with front loader
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  MTZ-82
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  MTZ-820
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  MTZ-952
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  MTZ-921
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  MTZ-320
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  MTZ-1221
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  MTZ-1522
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  MTZ-1523
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  MTZ-1220
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  MTZ-1222
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  MTZ-1025
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  MTZ-2422
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  MTZ-3022
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  MTZ-4522
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  MTZ-5022

• Media related to Minsk Tractor Works at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• Belarusian Machine Building: Once a Nation's Pride, Now a Burden?
• Belarus: putting Russia on the right tractor – archive, 1988

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