Volgograd Tractor Plant

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Volgograd Tractor Plant

Native name	Russian: Волгоградский тракторный завод
Company type	Open joint-stock company
Industry	Machinery, Defence
Founded	1930; 94 years ago (1930)
Headquarters	Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast , Russia
Area served	worldwide
Products	Tractors, Artillery, Combat vehicles
Revenue	RUB 873 million (2011)
Net income	RUB 229 million (2011)
Parent	Concern Tractor Plants

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 once one of the largest tractor manufacturing enterprises in the USSR. It was a site of fierce fighting during World War II's Battle of Stalingrad.

During its lifetime, VgTZ has supplied more than 2.5 million tractors to the farming industry, making a huge contribution to the mechanization of agriculture. VgTZ tractors operate in 32 countries throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and Latin America.^[1] Also used for the production of military vehicles, VgTZ is inextricably linked with the history of Soviet tank building.^[2] The plant continues to operate on a small scale, but much of it is now derelict or has been demolished.^[3]