The Belarus 1025 is a wheeled tractor in the range of Minsk Tractor Works, the Minsk-based maker of the Belarus tractors. It belongs to the 1000 series, which the company’s product list gives as the Belarus-1021, Belarus-1025.2, 1220.3 and 1221.2, inside a line of more than 62 models.
Belarus 1025 at a glance
| Maker | Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ), Minsk, Belarus |
|---|---|
| Brand | Belarus |
| Series | 1000 series |
| Model designation | Belarus-1025.2 |
| Range | over 62 models of vehicles |
| Plant founded | 29 May 1946 |
| First MTZ tractors | MTZ-1 and MTZ-2, October 1953 |
| Tractors built | 3,000,000 by 1995 |
| Share of CIS wheeled tractors | 87% in 2017 |
| Exports in 2017 | 92.1% of 31,011 tractors |
| Workforce | nearly 20,000 (2005) |
| US and Canada | EPA and Environment Canada certification, 2013 |
There is no Wikipedia article on the Belarus 1025 in any language, and the company page gives no specification for it; this page describes the maker and the place of the model in its range (based on one source).
History of the Belarus 1025
Minsk Tractor Works was established on 29 May 1946; its first machine was the caterpillar tractor KD-35 Kirovets, and series production of MTZ tractors began on 14 October 1953 with the MTZ-1 and MTZ-2, whose prototypes dated from 1949. The plant’s main civil product became the four-wheeled MTZ tractor sold under the Belarus name, and by 1995 three million of them had been built.
The 1000 series is part of that range. In the company’s product list it stands as a run of four-digit types: the Belarus-1021, the Belarus-1025.2, the 1220.3 and the 1221.2. The same list covers the smaller 800 and 900 series and the larger 1523, 2022.3, 3022DTS.1, 3522 and 5022 models. No separate specification for the Belarus 1025 is published on Wikipedia, so the figures on this page describe the maker and its range rather than the tractor itself.
By the 2010s Minsk Tractor Works was exporting most of its output. In 2017 it built 31,011 tractors, of which 92.1 per cent were exported, and eight countries took more than 500 each: Russia 11,135, Pakistan 4,845, Ukraine 4,028, Kazakhstan 2,106, Azerbaijan 1,637, Hungary 871, Romania 812 and Lithuania 736. In 2015 the plant had built 2,424 tractors, 45 per cent more than the 1,648 of the year before. Its tractors were certified by the US Environmental Protection Agency and by Environment Canada in 2013 and have been distributed in North America by MTZ Equipment Ltd since 2010.
Design and features
- 1000-series model: listed by the maker as the Belarus-1025.2, in a series that also includes the 1021, 1220.3 and 1221.2.
- Built in Minsk: it comes from the plant founded in 1946, which has made MTZ tractors since 1953.
- Part of a wide range: the company lists more than 62 models of vehicles.
- Sold abroad: Belarus tractors go to Western Europe and, since 2013, are approved for sale in the United States and Canada.
Belarus 1025 versions
- Belarus-1021: the smallest type of the 1000 series in the product list.
- Belarus-1025.2: the version of the 1025 named in the list.
- Belarus-1220.3: a larger 1000-series type.
- Belarus-1221.2: the most powerful of the listed 1000-series models.
The smaller Belarus tractors of the 800 series are described with the MTZ-80 and MTZ-82, and the earlier family with the MTZ-50. More machines are in the Belarus collection.
Video: Gruberowanie 2012 || Belarus 1025 Unia Kos ||
Video on YouTube.
Sources
- Minsk Tractor Works, English Wikipedia: company history, product list, production and export figures