Short answers, pulled from the story.
The foundation stone was laid on the 12th of July 1926, and the factory officially opened on the 17th of June 1930. It was one of the first industrial facilities built under the Soviet Union's rapid industrialization program of the late 1920s.
The plant was designed by Albert Kahn Associates Inc., the firm founded by Albert Kahn, who was also the architect for Henry Ford's factories. The Soviet trade representative Saul Bron signed the contract with Kahn in April 1929 for a total value of US$30 million, including equipment.
The plant was the first target when German Wehrmacht forces reached Stalingrad in the summer of 1942, and it was largely destroyed during the fighting that followed. After the final Soviet victory in February 1943, the site was cleared and full-scale production resumed within months.
The plant supplied more than 2.5 million tractors to the farming industry over its lifetime. Its tractors operated in 32 countries across Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and Latin America.
The plant produced a wide range of military vehicles, including the T-26 light infantry tank from 1932, the T-34 medium tank from 1940, the PT-76 amphibious tank, the BTR-50 armored personnel carrier, and multiple generations of BMD airborne infantry fighting vehicles. The separate Volgograd Machine Building Company on the same site still manufactures the Sprut-SDM1 self-propelled anti-tank gun and the BMD-4M.
The OJSC Tractor Company VgTZ subdivision ceased tractor production in November 2015. By the late 1990s, output had already fallen to fewer than 3,000 tractors per year, far below the peak of 144 tractors per day the plant achieved by April 1932.