Tractor fleet of Soviet farms in the Urals in the 1950s (according to the consolidated annual reports of state farms)

Introduction. The article examines the tractor fleet of Soviet farms in the Urals during a very interesting historical period. The relevance of the topic is determined by the fact that it was tractors, along with other agricultural machinery, that formed the basis of the machine park of Soviet farms. The latter appeared already in 1917 and were large state-owned agricultural enterprises, being the second (after collective farms) main form of agricultural production in the USSR economy. The scientific novelty of the work is ensured by two circumstances: firstly, the problem raised in the article has not actually been studied to date, and secondly, the bulk of the archival materials we publish from the federal archives is being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.