diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cb72b0e3..4f189ab4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,5 @@ PyYAML>=3.12
 requests-file>=1.4.2
 requests>=2.20.0
 six>=1.11.0
-tqdm>=4.19.5
 typing>=3.6.4 ; python_version < '3.5'
 urllib3>=1.21.1
diff --git a/trains/debugging/log.py b/trains/debugging/log.py
index c68b696d..3fbb8d6a 100644
--- a/trains/debugging/log.py
+++ b/trains/debugging/log.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ from platform import system
 
 from pathlib2 import Path
 from six import BytesIO
-from tqdm import tqdm
 
 default_level = logging.INFO
 
@@ -181,6 +180,8 @@ class TqdmLog(object):
             self._log.log(self._level, self._buf)
 
     def __init__(self, total, desc='', log_level=20, ascii=False, logger=None, smoothing=0, mininterval=5, initial=0):
+        from tqdm import tqdm
+
         self._io = self._TqdmIO(level=log_level, logger=logger)
         self._tqdm = tqdm(total=total, desc=desc, file=self._io, ascii=ascii if not system() == 'Windows' else True,
                           smoothing=smoothing,