On January 25, 2010, within the frames of his working trip to the Chuvash Republic, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited one of the leading Chuvash enterprises of the Tractor Plants Concern, Promtractor OJSC. The plant is the only one in Russia and the CIS countries, as well as the third largest producer of heavy bulldozing-cultivating and pipe-laying equipment in the world.
Machine builders demonstrated to Vladimir Putin one of the most modern and high-tech manufacturing facilities in Russia.