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The Pride of Tashkent: The Legendary TTZ and Its Modern Victories. The Tashkent Tractor Plant (TTZ) was founded in 1942 on the basis of an enterprise evacuated to Tashkent during the Great Patriotic War. Until the mid-1960s, the plant was called Tashavtomash. In the 1960s and 1970s, TTZ specialized in the production of cotton-growing modifications of the T-28 and MTZ-50 tractors, assembled from machine kits supplied by the Vladimir and Minsk Tractor Plants. In 1976, the plant mastered the production of T-28X4M tractors, including three- and four-wheel models. In total, more than 5,000 three-wheel tractors and more than 100,000 four-ton tractor trailers with a hydraulic cotton unloading system were produced. After Uzbekistan gained independence in 1991, TTZ continued its operations, adapting to new economic conditions. In 1993, the plant mastered the production of 60- and 80-horsepower row-crop tractors, and in 1997 - 100-horsepower models. In 2014, the enterprise was renamed the Tashkent Plant of Agricultural Machinery. In July 2020, the government of Uzbekistan transferred state shares in the authorized capital of the plant to the trust management of the automotive industry. Currently, the company produces general-purpose tractors, as well as cotton-growing modifications. The plant also launched the production of mini-tractors for gardening and vegetable gardening, tractor trailers and various agricultural equipment. TTZ remains an important industrial facility in Tashkent, making a significant contribution to the development of agricultural engineering in Uzbekistan.