Tractor, timber and agricultural machinery in the Soviet Union

Agricultural machinery in the Soviet Union has had a presence since the beginning of the union in the 1920s however many developments in this industry occurred during the USSR's existence such as the opening of domestic factories for agricultural equipment beginning in the 1930s, the mass-mechanization of collective farms, and the import of foreign equipment following the collapse of the USSR in 1991 == History == The domestic production and research of Agricultural machinery in Russia began in the mid 1800s when Artisans Andrei Terentyev and Moses Creek created the first Russian threshing machine. Some other events of note include: 1888 - Mechanic Fyodor Blinov builds the world's first model of a crawler tractor.

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