List of trolleybus systems in Russia
This is a list of trolleybus systems in Russia. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
List of trolleybus systems
Central Federal District
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (20.22) [1] |
Routes (20.07) |
Vehicles (12.09) [2] |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 Dec 1967 | - | 1 | 11 | 75 | - | ||
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1989, not completed.[3][4] | ||
3 Dec 1960 | - | 2 | 25 | 177 | - | ||
7 Nov 1952 | - | 2 | 8 | 135 | - | ||
10 Mar 1975 | - | 1 | 6 | 60 | - | ||
6 Nov 1960 | - | 2 | 6 | 90 | - | ||
5 Nov 1962 | - | 1 | 11 | 156 | - | ||
30 Mar 1956 | - | 1 | 14 | 125 | - | ||
10 Jan 1974 | - | 1 | 7 | 66 | - | ||
18 Aug 1972 | - | 1 | 8 | 81 | - | ||
1 Feb 1972 | 15 Aug 2017 | 1 | 9 | 122 | - | ||
15 Nov 1933 | 3 Sept 2020 (proposed) | <8 | 10 | ? | First and largest trolleybus system in Russia, and in former USSR.[5] Was the largest trolleybus system in the world till 2017.[6] | ||
24 Jul 1997 | - | 1 | 3 | 27 | 2 routes (out of 3) run between Khimki and Moscow city | ||
1 May 2001 | - | 1 | 4 | 38 | - | ||
Vidnoye | 9 Sep 2000 | - | 1 | 4 | 21 | - | |
28 Oct 1968 | - | 1 | 8 | 111 | - | ||
13 Nov 1949 | - | 3 | 15 | 200 | - | ||
8 Apr 1991 | - | 1 | 2 | 43 | - | ||
6 Nov 1955 | - | 1 | 13 | 55 | - | ||
5 May 1967 | 13 April 2020 | 1 | 7 | 104 | - | ||
3 Nov 1962 | - | 1 | 10 | 115 | - | ||
14 Dec 1976 | - | 1 | 7 | 67 | - | ||
17 Nov 1949 | - | 2 | 7 | 141 | - |
Far Eastern Federal District
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
22 Aug 1979 | 08 July 2016 | 1 | 2 | 31 | - | ||
17 Jan 1975 | - | 1 | 4 | 54 | - | ||
Vladivostok | 29 Jan 1965 | - | 1 | 4 | 38 | - |
Northwestern Federal District
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
14 Oct 1974 | 11 Apr 2008 | - | - | - | Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007.[7] | ||
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1991; stopped ca. 1998.[8] | ||
22 Aug 1979 | - | 1 | 6 | 90 | - | ||
27 Nov 1936 | Jan 1945 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage.[9] | ||
15 Oct 1943 | 27 Jan 1945 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage | ||
5 Nov 1975 | - | 1 | 4 | 60 | - | ||
5 Sep 1961 | - | 1 | 8 | 121 | - | ||
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 2004;[10] following plans drawn up in the late 1980s. Construction was suspended in 2005 and is not currently expected to resume. | ||
Tosno | - | - | - | - | - | Reported by one source as under construction. No information since 2002. | |
11 Feb 1962 | - | 2 | 5 | 141 | World's northernmost trolleybus system. | ||
3 Dec 1995 | - | 1 | 5 | 40 | - | ||
21 Oct 1936 | - | 6 | 44 | 742 | Operation suspended Nov 1941 - 1945 because of war. |
Siberian Federal District
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
19 Oct 1973 | - | 1 | 5 | 57 | - | ||
28 Dec 1973 | - | 1 | 2 | 49 | - | ||
30 Dec 1970 | - | 1 | 5 | 77 | - | ||
6 Nov 1970 | - | 1 | 5 | 40 | - | ||
1 Feb 1975 | - | 1 | 5 | 50 | - | ||
25 Sep 1970 | - | 1 | 10 | 88 | - | ||
Leninsk-Kuznetsky | 11 Jan 1984 | - | 1 | 3 | 31 | - | |
1 Jan 1978 | - | 1 | 4 | 53 | - | ||
5 Nov 1959 | - | 2 | 8 | 140 | - | ||
11 Nov 1957 | - | 4 | 14 | 322 | - | ||
5 Nov 1955 | - | 2 | 10 | 216 | - | ||
7 Nov 1967 | - | 1 | 8 | 93 | - | ||
31 Dec 1980 | - | 1 | 12 | 24 | - |
Southern Federal District
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
29 Nov 1974 | - | 1 | 12 | 53 | - | ||
5 Nov 1967 | 30 Oct 2017 | 1 | 3 | 40 | - | ||
31 Dec 1960 | - | 4 | 15 | 357 | - | ||
Kamyshin | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started 1985 and stopped 1991.[11] | |
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in early 1990s; stopped 1998.[12] | ||
3 Feb 1973 | - | 1 | 3 | 46 | - | ||
22 Nov 1980 | - | 1 | 4 | 52 | - | ||
19 Dec 1988 | - | 1 | 9 | 42 | - | ||
16 Jun 1973 | - | 1 | 5 | 44 | - | ||
28 Jul 1950 | - | 2 | 17 | 209 | - | ||
1 Apr 1969 | - | 1 | 14 | 79 | - | ||
1 Feb 1977 | 8 Aug 2010 | 1 | 2 | 12 | - | ||
24 Jul 1964 | - | 1 | 9 | 96 | - | ||
18 Mar 1936 | - | 2 | 8 | 108 | - | ||
30 Sep 1975 | 27 Oct 2007 | - | - | - | - | ||
25 Dec 1977 | - | 1 | 7 | 35 | - | ||
4 Oct 1977 | - | 1 | 6 | 32 | - | ||
31 Dec 1975 | Dec 1994 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage. Reconstruction planned. |
Urals Federal District
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
24 Nov 1965 | 29 Apr 2015 | 1 | 4 | 33 | - | ||
11 Nov 1972 | Dec 1985 | - | - | - | - | ||
1 Nov 1956 | 3 Mar 2015 | 1 | 3 | 59 | - | ||
- | - | - | - | - | Reported by only one source as under construction. Other sources state that construction was planned for 1996 but did not start. | ||
17 Oct 1943 | - | 2 | 19 | 356 | - | ||
12 Jun 1970 | 5 Oct 2009 | - | - | - | - | ||
- | - | - | - | - | Reported by only one source as under construction. No confirmation, no recent information. | ||
22 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 22 | 360 | - | ||
1 Feb 1975 | - | 1 | 5 | 69 | - |
Volga Federal District
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
24 Feb 1961 | - | 2 | 23 | 195 | - | ||
Ufa | 27 Jan 1962 | - | 2 | 21 | 211 | - | |
8 Nov 1943 | - | 2 | 8 | 157 | - | ||
1 Feb 1971 | - | 1 | 12 | 158 | - | ||
29 Jan 1966 | - | 2 | 17 | 141 | - | ||
15 Apr 1976 | - | 1 | 5 | 79 | - | ||
27 Jun 1947 | - | 3 | 21 | 227 | - | ||
1 May 1953 | - | 1 | 5 | 99 | - | ||
4 Nov 1948 | - | 2 | 6 | 100 | - | ||
14 Mar 1961 | - | 1 | 11 | N/A | - | ||
5 Nov 1960 | 1 Jul 2019 | 1 | 13 | 136 | - | ||
Novokuybyshevsk | 4 Jan 1986 | - | 1 | 16 | 56 | - | |
7 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 16 | 259 | - | ||
1 Sep 2002 | 1 Nov 2009 | - | - | - | - | ||
21 Jan 1966 | - | 1 | 21 | 183 | - | ||
18 Nov 1967 | - | 2 | 10 | 60 | - | ||
29 Apr 1964 | - | 1 | 4 | 55 | - | ||
6 Nov 1952 | - | 2 | 11 | 220 | - | ||
13 Jan 1976 | - | 1 | 4 | 48 | - | ||
27 Nov 1948 | - | 2 | 16 | 238 | - | ||
- | - | - | - | - | Reported by one source as under construction. No recent information. | ||
6 Nov 1968 | - | 2 | 11 | 245 | - | ||
31 Dec 1973 | - | 1 | 7 | 57 | - | ||
7 Nov 1964 | - | 3 | 19 | 301 | - | ||
2 Nov 1979 | - | 1 | 4 | 48 | - |
gollark: What? I've been on lots of trains. You don't have to sit down constantly.
gollark: Although sometimes there are issues, it's generally more "doing stupid things to appear safe" than "being too safe".
gollark: > I hate the safety focus of modern society. We should take more risks and be less opposed to death.Well, death bad.
gollark: Like, er, NFC?
gollark: There's also obviously Bluetooth and all the various other radio communication things.
See also
- List of trolleybus systems, for all other countries
- List of town tramway systems in Russia
- List of light-rail transit systems
- List of rapid transit systems
- Trolleybuses in former Soviet Union countries
- Trolleybus usage by country
Sources
Books and periodicals
- Murray, Alan. 2000. "World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia" (ISBN 0-904235-18-1). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
- Peschkes, Robert. 1987. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus and Rapid Transit Systems, Part Two: Asia & USSR /Africa/Australia" (ISBN 0-948619-00-7). London: Rapid Transit Publications.
- "Straßenbahnatlas ehem. Sowjetunion / Tramway Atlas of the former USSR" (ISBN 3-926524-15-4). 1996. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn, in conjunction with Light Rail Transit Association, London.
- Tarkhov, Sergei. 2000. "Empire of the Trolleybus: Vol 1 - Russia" (ISBN 0-948619-02-3). London: Rapid Transit Publications.
- Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.
References
- STTS
- STTS
- STTS
- https://transphoto.ru/articles/2200/
- Murray, p. 33.
- Murray, p. 40.
- Trolleybus Magazine (TM) No. 278, March–April 2008, p. 45.v
- Russian Wikipedia
- Angrapa.ru
- TM No. 257, Sep.-Oct. 2004, p. 122.
- https://transphoto.ru/photo/1247194/
- Tarkhov (2000), "Empire of the Trolleybus: Vol 1 - Russia", p. 135.
External links
Media related to Trolleybuses in Russia at Wikimedia Commons - World Tram and Trolleybus Systems (photos and maps of some systems, in English and Russian)
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