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 (As of 2021/7) | Routes | Vehicles (As of 2021/7) | Notes |
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Belgorod obl. | Belgorod | 3 Dec 1967 | - | 1[1] | 4[1] | 53[2] | - |
Stary Oskol | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1989, not completed.[3] | |
Bryansk obl. | Bryansk | 3 Dec 1960 | - | 1[4] | 11[4] | 93[5] | - |
Vladimir obl. | Vladimir | 5 Nov 1952[6] | - | 1[6] | 9 | 70[7] | 'Officially' opened on 7 November 1952[6] |
Kovrov | 6 Mar 1975[8] | - | 1[8] | 6+2 special[8] | 57[9] | - | |
Voronezh obl. | Voronezh | 6 Nov 1960 | - | 1[10] | 4[10] | 61[11] | Only 33 in actual service[11] |
Ivanovo obl. | Ivanovo | 5 Nov 1962[12] | - | 1[12] | 11[12] | 138[13] | 108 in service[13] |
Kaluga obl. | Kaluga | 30 Mar 1956[14] | - | 1[14] | 14 | 107[15] | 70 in service |
Kostroma obl. | Kostroma | 10 Jan 1974[16] | - | 1[16] | 7 | 53[17] | 19 in service |
Kursk obl. | Kursk | 21 Aug 1972[18] | - | 1[18] | 8 | 80[19] | - |
Lipetsk obl. | Lipetsk | 1 Feb 1972 | 15 Aug 2017[20] | 1 | 5[20] | 39[20] | Trolleybuses were operated by MUP 'Lipetskpassazhirtrans'[20]
Statistics at time of closing |
Moscow | Moscow | 15 Nov 1933 | 25 Aug 2020[21] | 3 | 6 | 649 | Numbers given are at the time of closure. The first trolleybus system in Russia and in former USSR,[22] it was the largest trolleybus system in the world for many years, from circa the mid-1950s until 2017.[23] One trolleybus route retained as an attraction.[24] |
Moscow obl. | Khimki | 24 Jul 1997 | - | 1[25] | 3[26] | 45[27] | 2 routes (out of 3) run between Khimki and Moscow city
Operated by MUP 'Khimkielektrotrans' |
Podolsk | 1 May 2001 | - | 1[28] | 5[29] | 47[30] | Operated by MUE “Podolskiy Trolleybus”[28] | |
Vidnoye | 9 Sep 2000 | - | 1[31] | 3[32] | 21[33] | Operated by MUE 'Vidnoe Trolleybus Depot'[31] | |
Oryol obl. | Oryol | 29 Oct 1968[34] | - | 1 | 4[34] | 59[35] | Operated by MUP 'Tram and trolleybus enterprise'[34] |
Ryazan obl. | Ryazan | 13 Nov 1949[36] | - | 2[36] | 15 | 188[37] | Another depot is not in use, but not 'closed'.
126 vehicles in use[37] |
Smolensk obl. | Smolensk | 8 Apr 1991[38] | - | 1[38] | 4[38] | 102[39] | Operated by Smolensk Municipal Unitary Tram and Trolleybus Enterprise[40] |
Tambov obl. | Tambov | 5 Nov 1955[41] | - | 1[41] | 3[41] | 15[42] | Operated by ME 'Tambovgorstrans'[41]
10 vehicles in operation[42] |
Tver obl. | Tver | 5 May 1967 | 14 April 2020[43] | 1 | 7 | 104 | - |
Tula obl. | Tula | 5 Nov 1962[44] | - | 1[44] | 7[44] | 100[45] | Operated by MUE 'Tulgorelectrotrans'[44] |
Yaroslavl obl. | Rybinsk | 14 Dec 1976[46] | - | 1 | 4[46] | 61[47] | Operated by JSC Rybinskelectrotrans[46] |
Yaroslavl | 7 Nov 1949[44] | - | 1[48] | 7[48] | 107[49] | Operated by JSC 'Yargorelectrotrans'[48] |
Far Eastern Federal District[]
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amur obl. | Blagoveshchensk | 22 Aug 1979 | 08 July 2016 | 1 | 2 | 31 | - |
Khabarovsk krai | Khabarovsk | 17 Jan 1975 | - | 1 | 4 | 54 | - |
Primorsky krai | Vladivostok | 29 Jan 1965 | - | 1 | 4 | 38 | - |
Northwestern Federal District[]
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arkhangelsk obl. | Arkhangelsk | 14 Oct 1974 | 11 Apr 2008 | - | - | - | Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007.[50] |
Vologda obl. | Cherepovets | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1992; stopped ca. 1996, remaining infrastructure dismantled 2008[51] |
Vologda | 22 Aug 1979 | - | 1 | 6 | 90 | - | |
Kaliningrad obl. | Chernyakhovsk | 27 Nov 1936 | Jan 1945 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage.[52] |
Kaliningrad | 15 Oct 1943 | 27 Jan 1945 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage | |
5 Nov 1975 | - | 1 | 4 | 60 | - | ||
Karelia | Petrozavodsk | 5 Sep 1961 | - | 1 | 8 | 121 | - |
Leningrad obl. | Gatchina | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 2004;[53] following plans drawn up in the late 1980s. Construction was suspended in 2005 and is not expected to resume.[54] |
Tosno | - | - | - | - | - | Reported by one source as under construction. No information since 2002.[citation needed] | |
Murmansk obl. | Murmansk | 11 Feb 1962 | - | 2 | 5 | 141 | World's northernmost trolleybus system. |
Novgorod obl. | Veliky Novgorod | 3 Dec 1995 | - | 1 | 5 | 40 | - |
Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Altai krai | Barnaul | 19 Oct 1973 | - | 1 | 5 | 57 | - |
Rubtsovsk | 28 Dec 1973 | - | 1 | 2 | 49 | - | |
Zabaykalsky krai | Chita | 30 Dec 1970 | - | 1 | 5 | 77 | - |
Irkutsk obl. | Irkutsk | 6 Nov 1970 | - | 1 | 5 | 40 | - |
Bratsk | 1 Feb 1975 | - | 1 | 5 | 50 | - | |
Kemerovo obl. | Kemerovo | 25 Sep 1970 | - | 1 | 10 | 88 | - |
Leninsk-Kuznetsky | 11 Jan 1984 | - | 1 | 3 | 31 | - | |
Novokuznetsk | 1 Jan 1978 | - | 1 | 4 | 53 | - | |
Krasnoyarsk krai | Krasnoyarsk | 5 Nov 1959 | - | 2 | 8 | 140 | - |
Novosibirsk obl. | Novosibirsk | 11 Nov 1957 | - | 4 | 14 | 322 | - |
Omsk obl. | Omsk | 5 Nov 1955 | - | 2 | 10 | 216 | - |
Tomsk obl. | Tomsk | 7 Nov 1967 | - | 1 | 8 | 93 | - |
Khakassia | Abakan | 31 Dec 1980 | - | 1 | 12 | 24 | - |
Southern Federal District[]
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adygea | Maykop | 29 Nov 1974 | - | 1 | 12 | 53 | - |
Astrakhan obl. | Astrakhan | 5 Nov 1967 | 30 Oct 2017 | 1 | 3 | 40 | - |
Volgograd obl. | Volgograd | 31 Dec 1960 | - | 4 | 15 | 357 | - |
Kamyshin | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started 1985 and stopped 1991.[55] | |
Volzhsky | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in early 1990s; stopped 1998.[56] | |
Dagestan | Makhachkala | 3 Feb 1973 | - | 1 | 3 | 46 | - |
Kabardino-Balkaria | Nalchik | 22 Nov 1980 | - | 1 | 4 | 52 | - |
Karachay–Cherkessia | Cherkessk | 19 Dec 1988 | - | 1 | 9 | 42 | - |
Krasnodar krai | Armavir | 16 Jun 1973 | - | 1 | 5 | 44 | - |
Krasnodar | 28 Jul 1950 | - | 2 | 17 | 209 | - | |
Novorossiysk | 1 Apr 1969 | - | 1 | 14 | 79 | - | |
North Ossetia | Vladikavkaz | 1 Feb 1977 | 8 Aug 2010 | 1 | 2 | 12 | - |
Stavropol krai | Stavropol | 24 Jul 1964 | - | 1 | 9 | 96 | - |
Rostov obl. | Rostov-on-Don | 18 Mar 1936 | - | 2 | 8 | 108 | - |
Shakhty | 30 Sep 1975 | 27 Oct 2007 | - | - | - | - | |
Taganrog | 25 Dec 1977 | - | 1 | 7 | 35 | - | |
Volgodonsk | 4 Oct 1977 | - | 1 | 6 | 32 | - | |
Chechnya | Grozny | 31 Dec 1975 | Dec 1994 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage.[57] |
Urals Federal District[]
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kurgan obl. | Kurgan | 24 Nov 1965 | 29 Apr 2015 | 1 | 4 | 33 | - |
Sverdlovsk obl. | Kachkanar | 11 Nov 1972 | Dec 1985 | - | - | - | - |
Kamensk-Uralsky | 1 Nov 1956 | 3 Mar 2015 | 1 | 3 | 59 | - | |
Nizhny Tagil | - | - | - | - | - | Reported by only one source as under construction. Other sources state that construction was planned for 1996 but did not start.[citation needed] | |
Yekaterinburg | 17 Oct 1943 | - | 2 | 19 | 356 | - | |
Tyumen obl. | Tyumen | 12 Jun 1970 | 5 Oct 2009 | - | - | - | - |
Khanty–Mansi AO | Surgut | - | - | - | - | - | Reported by only one source as under construction. No confirmation, no recent information.[citation needed] |
Chelyabinsk obl. | Chelyabinsk | 22 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 22 | 360 | - |
Miass | 1 Feb 1975 | - | 1 | 5 | 69 | - |
Volga Federal District[]
Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bashkortostan | Sterlitamak | 24 Feb 1961 | - | 2 | 23 | 195 | - |
Ufa | 27 Jan 1962 | - | 2 | 21 | 211 | - | |
Kirov obl. | Kirov | 8 Nov 1943 | - | 2 | 8 | 157 | - |
Mari El | Yoshkar-Ola | 1 Feb 1971 | - | 1 | 12 | 158 | - |
Mordovia | Saransk | 29 Jan 1966 | - | 2 | 17 | 141 | - |
Nizhny Novgorod obl. | Dzerzhinsk | 15 Apr 1976 | - | 1 | 5 | 79 | - |
Nizhny Novgorod | 27 Jun 1947 | - | 3 | 21 | 227 | - | |
Orenburg obl. | Orenburg | 1 May 1953 | - | 1 | 5 | 99 | - |
Penza obl. | Penza | 4 Nov 1948 | - | 2 | 6 | 100 | - |
Perm krai | Berezniki | 14 Mar 1961 | - | 1 | 11 | N/A | - |
Perm | 5 Nov 1960 | 1 Jul 2019 | 1 | 13 | 136 | - | |
Samara obl. | Novokuybyshevsk | 4 Jan 1986 | - | 1 | 16 | 56 | - |
Samara | 7 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 16 | 259 | - | |
Syzran | 1 Sep 2002 | 1 Nov 2009 | - | - | - | - | |
Tolyatti | 21 Jan 1966 | - | 1 | 21 | 183 | - | |
Saratov obl. | Balakovo | 18 Nov 1967 | - | 2 | 10 | 60 | - |
Engels | 29 Apr 1964 | - | 1 | 4 | 55 | - | |
Saratov | 6 Nov 1952 | - | 2 | 11 | 220 | - | |
Tatarstan | Almetyevsk | 13 Jan 1976 | - | 1 | 4 | 48 | - |
Kazan | 27 Nov 1948 | - | 2 | 16 | 238 | - | |
Naberezhnye Chelny | - | - | - | - | - | Reported by one source as under construction. No recent information.[citation needed] | |
Udmurtia | Izhevsk | 6 Nov 1968 | - | 2 | 11 | 245 | - |
Ulyanovsk obl. | Ulyanovsk | 31 Dec 1973 | - | 1 | 7 | 57 | - |
Chuvashia | Cheboksary | 7 Nov 1964 | - | 3 | 19 | 301 | - |
Novocheboksarsk | 2 Nov 1979 | - | 1 | 4 | 48 | - |
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[]
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- ^ "Stary Oskol — Trolleybus line". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Bryansk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Bryansk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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- ^ "Vladimir, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Kovrov". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Kovrov, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Voronezh". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Voronezh, trolleybus — Roster". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Ivanovo". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ivanovo, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Kaluga". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Kaluga, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Kostroma". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Kostroma, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Kursk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Kursk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Lipetsk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Прощай, московский троллейбус!" [Goodbye, Moscow trolleybus!] (in Russian). Russkiy Mir Foundation. 27 August 2020. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ Murray (2000), p. 9.
- ^ Klimov, Konstantin (March–April 2019). "Sunset over the Trolleybus Empire". Trolleybus Magazine (344). UK: National Trolleybus Association. p. 52. ISSN 0266-7452.
- ^ "В Москве запустили музейный маршрут троллейбуса" [Museum trolleybus route launched in Moscow] (in Russian). Official website of the Mayor of Moscow. 5 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- ^ "Khimki". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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- ^ "Khimki, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Podolsk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Карта маршрутов Подольских троллейбусов". www.muppt.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Podolsk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Vidnoye". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "МУП "Видновский троллейбусный парк"". www.mupvit.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Vidnoye, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Oryol". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Oryol, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ryazan". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ryazan, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Smolensk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Smolensk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "История предприятия" (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Tambov". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Tambov, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Tver". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Tula". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Tula, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Rybinsk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Rybinsk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Yaroslavl". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Yaroslavl, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Trolleybus Magazine (TM) No. 278, March–April 2008, p. 45.v
- ^ "Cherepovets". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ Angrapa.ru
- ^ TM No. 257, Sep.-Oct. 2004, p. 122.
- ^ "Gatchina". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ https://transphoto.ru/photo/1247194/
- ^ Tarkhov (2000), "Empire of the Trolleybus: Vol 1 - Russia", p. 135.
- ^ "Grozny". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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)
Categories:
- Lists of trolleybus systems
- Trolleybus transport by country
- Public transport in Russia