MTZ-80

Name: Belarus MTZ-80
Brand: Belarus

Built 1974 to present (series production from 1974; prototypes 1972 to 1973) in Minsk Tractor Works, Minsk, Belarus (then the Soviet Union)

Power

80engine hp

Engine

4-cyl 4.75 L Diesel

Weight

3,655kg

Gearbox

18 forward, 4 reverse

The story

The MTZ-80 was a thorough redesign of the earlier MTZ-50, ordered by the Soviet government and finished in 1972. Series production at Minsk Tractor Works began in 1974, alongside the four-wheel-drive MTZ-82, and the tractor has stayed in production in updated forms ever since.

Its 4.75-litre D-240 diesel ran faster than the older engine, raising both power and road speed, and the gearbox gave 18 forward speeds. In 1975 the Soviet science and technology committee named it machine of the year.

Sold as the Belarus across the Eastern Bloc and far beyond, it became one of the most numerous tractors ever built, with cotton, forestry and crawler versions developed from it.

Did you knowA crawler tractor based on it, the T-70, went into production in Kishinev in 1975.

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Specifications

Engine
Maker	D-240 (Minsk Motor Plant), direct-injection diesel
Fuel	Diesel
Cylinders	4
Displacement	4.75 L / 290 cu in
Power
Rated engine power	80 hp
Drive
Transmission	18 forward, 4 reverse (9-speed gearbox with range reduction); a 16 forward, 8 reverse version was also made
Top speed	33.4 km/h / 20.8 mph
Hitch	3-point hydraulic linkage (about 2,000 kg lift); PTO 540 and 1,000 rpm plus ground-speed drive
Size
Weight	3,655 kg / 8,060 lb
History
Built	1974 to present (series production from 1974; prototypes 1972 to 1973)
Factory	Minsk Tractor Works, Minsk, Belarus (then the Soviet Union)
Number made	About 1.5 million MTZ-80 tractors by 1995 (Russian Wikipedia figure; how it splits between the 80 and 82 is unclear)

About these figures. 80 hp (metric, about 59 kW) at 2,200 rpm is the figure given by Russian Wikipedia and the Finnish Koneviesti data; Russian Wikipedia says the earliest engines gave 75 hp. Bore 110 mm, stroke 125 mm. Weight is the Koneviesti figure for the two-wheel-drive tractor (3,820 kg for the MTZ-82); Russian Wikipedia gives 3.6 t as the full mass. Agriland reports that an MTZ-80 was tested at Nebraska, but our Nebraska index has no matching test, so none is given.

Sources

Last checked 1 November 2026