Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant / Uraltrac
The Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant was declared bankrupt in February 1998. The design capacity is 60,000 tractors a year. As of Dec. 22, 1998, accounts payable topped 3.7 billion rubles. The biggest creditors are the government, which is due 1.4 billion rubles, the Chelyabenergo power utility, due 143 million rubles, and Uraltransgaz, which the plant owes 16.5 million rubles. In April 2001 the Chelyabinsk tractor plant stopped production for two weeks because the demand on tractors had fallen in the domestic market. The bankrupt Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, in consultation with its committee of creditors, began unloading assets via a series of public auctions in mid-2002.
By 1934, the Soviet Union had infact made a great leap forward concerning their industrial program. While at the Seventeenth Party Congress (only three years after the Sixteenth Party Congress when Stalin had set the initial goals), Stalin focused on the fact that industry had expanded greatly and was still growing. He announced proudly that thousands of new enterprises had been commissioned, including such gigantic projects as the Dnieper Hydroelectric project, the Magnitorsk and Kuznets sites, the Urals truckbuilding plant, the Chelyabinsk tractor plant, the Kramatorsk auto plant and so on. Nizhni Tagil, a town in the Urals which is 140 km from Yekaterinburg, formerly was off-limits to foreigners.
The tractor plant of Chelyabinsk is a big machinery company for engineering and production the industrial tractors and engines for them. It has a rich technological and industrial potential. High skilled specialists are able to resolve some complicated problems to construct, engineering. The plant produces some machines for the oil-natural gas, minerals, construction industry and etc. The ChTS production is today in great demand on the russian and international market.
The plant was rewarded with the Order of Lenin in 1971, the Order of the Labour Red Banner in 1983, the Order of Kutusov for the first degree in 1945, the order of the Red Star in 1944. The Test plant in 1944 and the design bureau for diesels in 1945 are rewarded with the Order of Lenin. 12 tractor - constructors became the title the Hero of Socialist Labour.
The tractor plant of Chelyabinsk named Stalin is an operating plant in the country according to order on June 1, 1933. The birthday of the tractor plant is the first June in 1933. It was the time, when the first tractors were (produced. These were the track tractors "Staliner-60" (C-60) with power 60 using the ligroin fuel. The tractor plant of Chelyabinsk is today the main manufacturer of the powerful, track tractors in Russia. The ChTS machines worked and work in different regions to help resolve the important problems.
In 1936 the plant's tractors passed the most difficult examen taken part in two grand expeditions: "Snow campaign" - two thousand kilometers through over Yakutiya by the temperature -50°C in February, and "Pamir campaign" - the march on the height four thousand meters in the military district of Turkestan. In 1940 the tractor specialists developed the production of the powerful tanks KB constructed by the Kirov's plant of Leningrad and the 12 plunger fuel pump "TH-12" for the aviation engines of the powerful bombardment planes. The state comission took on the tank of Chelyabinsk on the 31 December in 1940.
The tractor plant of Chelyabinsk named Stalin is renamed in the plant Chelyabinsk Narkomtankoprom named Kirov according to order of Narkom for the tank industry on October 6, 1941.
During the Great Patriotic War ChTS was renamed in the Kirov plant Narkomtankoprom in the city Chelyabinsk. This plant and other seven partially evacuated througly or partially plants formd and integrated tank plant, later named Tankograd. The plant became one of the mainest front varsenals in short time: 18 thousand tanks and self-propelled machines, 48,5 thousand tank diesel engines, 17,7 ml. Military ammunition sets. The Tankograd manufactured 13 new tank types and SAU 6 tank diesel engines. The powerful tank assembly was started at first in the history of the world tank industry practice. The plant was rewarded by the State War Committee 33 times during the War with the Red Banners for the Union competition Win. Two banners were reserved in the plant forever.
The plant of Chelyabinsk Narkomtankoprom named Kirov is renamed in the tractor plant Chelyabinsk named Lenin according to order of 9ÈÍ in Chelyabinsk ¹ 434 on June 20, 1958.
The tractor plant of Chelyabinsk named Lenin is reformed in the untied "tractor plant of Chelyabinsk named Lenin according to order ¹ 299 of the THSM minister on November 1971.
ChTS supplies several machines (tractors, bulldozers, rippers) on the base of the tractors T-170, T-10, ÄÝÒ-250 with the mechanical, hydraulic mechanical transmission, some machines for the north region, pipelayers with 12,5 and 20 load capacity, 4,5t loader, tractors with the pull winch, drilling machines, diesel engines (12 - 1000 hp), diesel generator systems (100 kWt) for the independent energy supply, spare parts to the ChTS tractors. The plant manufactures the consumer goods: the universal. Wheel-track small-sized "Uralez" (12 hp), the communal machine T-02.03.2 and other.
The united tractor plant of Chelyabinsk named Lenin is reformed in AO "Uraltrac" according to the general meeting of Shareholders through order ¹ 1 of general director on October 1, 1992.
AO "Uraltrac" is renamed in the open stock company "The tractor plant of Chelyabinsk" according to the general meeting of Shareholders through order 86 of the general director on April 27, 1996.
