
1980The successful production of the T-330 bulldozer gave a start to the development of a fundamentally new range of tractors with extended working cycle. In 1986, the world saw a transitional model T-500 with a power of 480 h.p., which corresponded to the level of advanced foreign competitors. The affordable price and operational qualities allowed to bring the new tractor from the Cheboksary Tractor Plant to the global market. The Soviet bulldozer was recognized abroad and successfully exported to Australia, Venezuela, Spain, Colombia and Yugoslavia. 1986-1988 was marked by the birth of a new family of tractors with modular units: T25.01 and T35.01.
Today those machines, along with T9, T11, T15, T20 and T40 bulldozers, are produced under the CHETRA brand. Since the beginning of production and up to the present the whole class of tractors is unified to the maximum extent possible and embodies the advanced developments in the field of design of industrial special-purpose machines.