Altaysky Traktorny Zavod
| Алтайский тракторный завод Altaiski Traktorny Sawod
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| legal form | Open joint-stock company |
| founding | 1941 |
| Seat | Rubtsovsk , Russia |
| Branch | Tractor and special vehicle construction |
| Website | alttrac.ru |
| Status: February 27, 2019 | |
The Altaiski Traktorny Sawod , ATZ or ATS for short ( Russian Алтайский тракторный завод , АТЗ for short, Altaier Tractor Factory in German ) is a former Soviet and now Russian manufacturer of tracked tractors and other tracked vehicles . The company, which was founded in 1941, is located in Rubzowsk , Altai region in western Siberia and today officially operates under the name OAO Altaiski Traktor (Russian ОАО Алтайский трактор), or ALTTRAC for short .
Company history
On November 18, 1941, the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of People's Commissars decided to evacuate the production facilities of the Kharkov tractor factory behind the Urals. As with many other industrial companies, the reason was the approach of the German troops in the course of Operation Barbarossa , the attack by the Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union. In the months that followed, a new tractor factory was built in what was then the small town of Rubzowsk. The first tractor, a SChTS-NATI , rolled off the production line on August 24, 1942. This type has been built in other plants since 1937.
While all other large tractor factories in the Soviet Union were converted to the production of weapons and tanks during the war , the Altaiski Traktorny Sawod continued to produce chain tractors of the SChTS-NATI type. After the end of the war, ATS began building DT-54 tractors in series from 1952 . In other plants, the production of the same type had already started three years earlier. While the Charkowski Traktorny Sawod and the Stalingradski Traktorny Sawod stopped production at the beginning of the 1960s, ATS produced the model until 1979.
In 1956 the decision was made that the plant should also build forest machines in the future. The first TDT-60 skidder rolled off the production line as early as 1957 . The vehicle won a gold medal at the 1958 World's Fair . On the basis of the TDT-60, more powerful and larger vehicles were later developed; today, forest tractors with chain drives are the company's core business.
Development of the T-4 chain tractor began in May 1960 . This vehicle remained in series production from 1964 to 1998, various models were designed and around 380,000 copies were built.
During the collapse of the Soviet Union , the company was privatized in 1992 . The newly created open joint stock company has been called "OAO Altaiski Traktor" since then. Crawler tractors were also developed that were built in significantly higher performance classes than before. Today the company sells crawler tractors for agriculture as well as various special equipment based on these vehicle types.
Products
The following list is only a selection of the most important vehicles that have been built over time.
- SChTS-NATI - first chain tractor of the plant, built from 1942.
- DT-54 - successor to the SChTS-NATI in production for 30 years, almost one million units were built.
- TDT-60 - The manufacturer's first forest tractor from the 1950s, with a crawler chassis.
- T-4 - Heavy chain tractor, built from 1964 in various modifications.
- T-401 and T-501 - crawler tractors from current production with 150 and 200 HP respectively.
In addition, earth drilling equipment, forest tractors, cranes and construction machines are built on the basis of tracked vehicles.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Kharkovsky Traktorny Sawod on its website (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e History of the Altaiski Traktorny Sawod on its company website (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ To the production history of the DT-54 (Russian)
- ↑ To the T-4 and the modification T-4A (Russian)
- ↑ Company website with an overview of the current production (Russian)
Web links
- Company website (Russian)