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Machine and Tractor Station

Rural agencies that supplied collective farms with agricultural machinery and people to run it founded in 19281

The machine tractor station (MTS) (Ukrainian: машинно-тракторна станція, romanized: mashynno-traktorna stantsiia, Russian: машинно-тракторная станция, romanized: mashinno-traktornaya stantsiya, МТС) was a state enterprise for ownership and maintenance of agricultural machinery that were used in kolkhozy (collective farms operated by the government). Each MTS was responsible for around 40 kolkhozy. The first ever MTS was organized in the Odesa Oblast (Shevchenkivska MTS).2 It ceased to exist in 1960.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1928Founded1
  • Industryagriculture1

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Stamp of USSR 1940
Photo: Post of USSR, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

The machine tractor station (MTS) (Ukrainian: машинно-тракторна станція, romanized: mashynno-traktorna stantsiia, Russian: машинно-тракторная станция, romanized: mashinno-traktornaya stantsiya, МТС) was a state enterprise for ownership and maintenance of agricultural machinery that were used in kolkhozy (collective farms operated by the government). Each MTS was responsible for around 40 kolkhozy. The first ever MTS was organized in the Odesa Oblast (Shevchenkivska MTS). MTSs were introduced in 1928 as a shared resource of scarce agricultural machinery and technical personnel.2

Timeline

  1. 1960Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1928Founded Founded1

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