History of tractor construction of Kirovskii Zavod
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1924 1924 The production of American Fordson tractors was localized at the Putilov factory. The first Russian tractor - Fordson-Putilovets was released. Russian industrial tractor construction was launched. |
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1934-1940 1934-1940 More powerful tractors Universal-1 and Universal-2 were mass-produced at the factory. Since 1924 it has been issued nearly 150,000 of Universal and Fordson-Putilovets tractors . |
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1962 1962 First generation of Kirovets agricultural tractors: models K-700 (210/ 220 HP) and K-700A (220/ 235 HP). The first Kirovets K-700 was released on July 13th. During this year 15 tractors were constructed. The first pilot batch of 50 tractors was assembled in 1963. |
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1964 1964 Start of series production of Kirovets tractors. In September 14, 1964 the main tractor assembly line produced the first production K-700, this year more than 1,200 vehicles were released. |
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1975 The second generation of Kirovets agricultural tractors: the first production K-701 (300 HP) was assembled; 100-thousandth production K-700 was released. |
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1979 The first generation of Kirovets industrial tractors: design documentation was completed and the first production tractors K-703 (235 HP) was assembled as a base for forestry machines complex manufacturing. |
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1980 The first samples of the world's most powerful wheeled agricultural tractors of the 8th pulling class K-710 Iliich (500 HP) was assembled, and 200-thousandth serial tractor was released. |
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1985 Third generation of Kirovets agricultural tractors: the first production tractor К-701М (335/ 350 HP) was assembled , 300-thousandth tractor was released. |
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1989 The second generation of Kirovets industrial tractors: production of construction and road vehicles based on industrial tractor K-702 (235/ 250 HP) began. |
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1995 Fourth generation of Kirovets agricultural tractors: the first model of K-734 (250 HP) and K-744 (350 HP) were produced for export. 460-thousandth serial tractor was released. |
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2000 Fifth generation of Kirovets agricultural tractors: the first К-744Р tractors were produced for the domestic market, the first experimental batch of K-745 (428 HP) was released. |
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2002 On February 1, 2001, the transition from production that was no longer relevant to modern requirements and security standards of models K-700, K-701 and K-703 to serial production of new models К-744Р (250/ 300/ 350 HP) was completed. |
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2007 Third generation of Kirovets industrial tractors: design documentation and model prototypes of the front loader K-3060 with load capacity of 6 tons were released. |
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2008 Sixth generation of Kirovets agricultural tractors: design documentation and models prototypes of the K-9000 (354-516 HP) were released. |
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2010 Design documentation and models prototypes of front loader K-3080 with load capacity of 8 tons and of universal tractor module K-708 with overall width of 2.5 m were released. |
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2014 Series of loaders and Kirovets universal road vehicles series K-702 were updated. |
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2014 Truck, based on K-708 was released. |
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2014 In-depth overhaul of Kirovets tractors series К-744Р was carried out. |
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2015 A new model of Kirovets industrial tractor of the new generation was released. |