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To reduce the negative effect of the tractors on the soil an improvement of travelling mechanism is recommended in order to limit the pressure on the soil and to reduce the slip, either. A perspective solution would be a travelling system with the rubber tracks. The travelling system in MTZ tractor of 60 kW engine power, equipped with the rubber tracks, enabled to reduce the soilcompaction 1,4-2-times and the slip 1.7-2-times. The relationships connected with the rubber track impact on the soil were analysed. The analytical relations of pressure distribution for the rubber track-laying travelling mechanism were determined, considering simultaneous deformations of the soil, the track and resisting wheel. It was found that the maximum pressure value is affected mostly by the track tension, loading and other parameters of resisting wheel. At decreasing the ridigity of wheel circumference foom 4 MN/m² to 2 MN/m² the maximum pressure on the soil was reduced by 4.5%, while at the ridigity to 8 MN/m² it increased respectively by 3.8%. Decrease of the wheel diameter from 0.5 m to 0.25 m augmented the pressure by 12%, while at increasing wheel diameter to 1 m the pressure on soil dropped down by 13%. At track tension reduced from 7 kN to 3.5 kN the pressure on soil increased by 13.5%, whereas the tension increment to 14 kN reduced the pressure on soil by 16.5%.