was already presented by minsk residents at the end of 1948 at the scientific and technical council of the ministry of automotive and tractor industrymician evgeniy alekseevich chudakov, an authoritative figure in the ussr. after much debate, the technical design of the universal wheeled... utility tractor was approved. the calculations and arguments of the chief designer of the minsk tractor plant , ivan iosifovich drong, turned out to be more than convincing. the car had to be put into production as soon as possible. on july 18 , 1949, the first belarusian wheeled track was already coming out of the gates of the experimental workshop. developed by the plant designers. it became an event: its own development, its own assembly. the republic laid the foundations for creating a whole line of its own machines, with its own tractor-building school. model received the name mtz-1. a total of seven prototypes were produced in 1949. factory ones. testing, refinement, testing again. the prototype became the basis for the creation of mtz2. it was she who was launched into mass production. crawler tractor kd-35, skidder kt-12, special equipmen