List of trolleybus systems in Russia

Trolza trolleybus in Moscow, 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 July 2021) 		Routes Vehicles
(as of July 2021) 		Notes
Belgorod obl. Belgorod 3 Dec 1967 30 Jun 2022[1] 1[2] 4[2] 53[3] Operated by LLC 'Best' at time of closing.
Stary Oskol - - - - - Construction started in 1989, not completed.[4]
Bryansk obl. Bryansk 3 Dec 1960 - 1[5] 11[5] 93[6] -
Vladimir obl. Vladimir 5 Nov 1952[7] - 1[7] 9 70[8] 'Officially' opened on 7 November 1952[7]
Kovrov 6 Mar 1975[9] - 1[9] 6+2 special[9] 57[10] -
Voronezh obl. Voronezh 6 Nov 1960 - 1[11] 4[11] 61[12] Only 33 in actual service[12]
Ivanovo obl. Ivanovo 5 Nov 1962[13] - 1[13] 11[13] 138[14] 108 in service[14]
Kaluga obl. Kaluga 30 Mar 1956[15] - 1[15] 14 107[16] 70 in service
Kostroma obl. Kostroma 10 Jan 1974[17] 30 Jun 2023 1[17] 7 53[18] Operated by MUE 'Trolleybusnoe Upravlenie'
Kursk obl. Kursk 21 Aug 1972[19] - 1[19] 8 80[20] -
Lipetsk obl. Lipetsk 1 Feb 1972 15 Aug 2017[21] 1 5[21] 39[21] Trolleybuses were operated by MUP 'Lipetskpassazhirtrans'[21]

Statistics at time of closing

Moscow Moscow 15 Nov 1933 25 Aug 2020[22] 3 6 649 Numbers given are at the time of closure. The first trolleybus system in Russia and in former USSR,[23] it was the largest trolleybus system in the world for many years, from circa the mid-1950s until 2017.[24] One trolleybus route retained as an attraction.[25]
Moscow obl. Khimki (Khimki trolleybus) 24 Jul 1997 - 1[26] 3[27] 45[28] 2 routes (out of 3) run between Khimki and Moscow city

Operated by MUP 'Khimkielektrotrans'

Podolsk 1 May 2001 - 1[29] 5[30] 47[31] Operated by MUE “Podolskiy Trolleybus”[29]
Vidnoye 9 Sep 2000 - 1[32] 3[33] 21[34] Operated by MUE 'Vidnoe Trolleybus Depot'[32]
Oryol obl. Oryol 29 Oct 1968[35] - 1 4[35] 59[36] Operated by MUP 'Tram and trolleybus enterprise'[35]
Ryazan obl. Ryazan 13 Nov 1949[37] - 2[37] 15 188[38] Another depot is not in use, but not 'closed'.

126 vehicles in use[38]

Smolensk obl. Smolensk 8 Apr 1991[39] - 1[39] 4[39] 102[40] Operated by Smolensk Municipal Unitary Tram and Trolleybus Enterprise[41]
Tambov obl. Tambov 5 Nov 1955[42] - 1[42] 3[42] 15[43] Operated by ME 'Tambovgorstrans'[42]

7 vehicles in operation[43]

Tver obl. Tver 5 May 1967 14 April 2020[44] 1 7 104 -
Tula obl. Tula 5 Nov 1962[45] - 1[45] 7[45] 100[46] Operated by MUE 'Tulgorelectrotrans'[45]
Yaroslavl obl. Rybinsk 14 Dec 1976[47] - 1 4[47] 61[48] Operated by JSC Rybinskelectrotrans[47]
Yaroslavl 7 Nov 1949[45] - 1[49] 7[49] 107[50] Operated by JSC 'Yargorelectrotrans'[49]

Far Eastern Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
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 Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
Arkhangelsk obl. Arkhangelsk 14 Oct 1974 11 Apr 2008 - - - Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007.[51]
Vologda obl. Cherepovets - - - - - Construction started in 1992; stopped ca. 1996, remaining infrastructure dismantled 2008[52]
Vologda 22 Aug 1979 - 1 6 90 -
Kaliningrad obl. Chernyakhovsk 27 Nov 1936 Jan 1945 - - - Operated by Stadtwerke Omnibusbetrieb Insterburg

Closed because of war damage.[53] During the period of operation of the trolleybus network, the city was known as Insterburg.[54]

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 See Trolleybuses in Petrozavodsk
Leningrad obl. Gatchina - - - - - Construction started in 2004;[55] following plans drawn up in the late 1980s. Construction was suspended in 2005 and is not expected to resume.[56]
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 Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
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 Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
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.[57]
Volzhsky - - - - - Construction started in early 1990s; stopped 1998.[58]
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 A PKTS-6281.00 'Admiral' trolleybus was delivered on May 30, 2022.[59]
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 Operated by MUE 'TTU'

Trolleybus traffic suspended since May 2022 due to repairs on electricity substations.[60]

Volgodonsk 4 Oct 1977 - 1 6 32 -
Chechnya Grozny 31 Dec 1975 Dec 1994 - - - Closed because of war damage.[61]

Urals Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
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 - - - Service operated by ME 'Trolleybusnoe Predpriyatie'[62]
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 Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
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 30 Jun 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

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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  4. ^ "Stary Oskol — Trolleybus line". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  51. ^ Trolleybus Magazine (TM) No. 278, March–April 2008, p. 45.v
  52. ^ "Cherepovets". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  53. ^ Angrapa.ru
  54. ^ "Insterburg".
  55. ^ TM No. 257, Sep.-Oct. 2004, p. 122.
  56. ^ "Gatchina". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  57. ^ "Kamyshin — Maps — Photo".
  58. ^ Tarkhov (2000), "Empire of the Trolleybus: Vol 1 - Russia", p. 135.
  59. ^ "Vladikavkaz".
  60. ^ "Taganrog".
  61. ^ "Grozny". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  62. ^ "Tyumen".

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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