This is a list of trolleybus systems in Ukraine by oblast . It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
LAZ trolleybus in Ternopil , Ukraine
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Cherkasy
9 November 1965
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Chernihiv
4 November 1964
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Chernivtsi
1 February 1939
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Alushta
20 August 1993
See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta.
Kerch
18 September 2004
Simferopol
7 October 1959
Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta
6 November 1959
Simferopol – Alushta opened 6 November 1959. Alushta – Yalta opened July 1961. World's longest trolleybus line, 86.7 km (53.7 mi). See Crimean Trolleybus .
Yalta
1 May 1961
See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta.
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Dnipro
7 November 1947
Kryvyi Rih
21 December 1957
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Bakhmut (known as Artemivsk before 2016)
29 April 1968
29 June 2022[1]
Operation suspended due to extensive artillery damage to the depot and rolling stock, sustained at the start of the Battle of Bakhmut . Reopening uncertain.
Dobropillia
23 August 1968
15 March 2011
Donetsk
3 January 1940
Dzerzhynsk (now known as Toretsk )
26 April 1985
15 May 2007
City was named Dzerzhynsk during the entire period of trolleybus operation, but was renamed Toretsk in 2016.
Horlivka
6 November 1974
Khartsyzk
4 February 1982
Kramatorsk
18 November 1971
Makiivka
13 November 1969
Trolleybus line from Donetsk extended to Makiivka on 7 November 1960, however no connection exists between the Donetsk and Makiivka trolleybus systems.
Mariupol
21 April 1970
2 March 2022[2]
Operation suspended due to extensive damage sustained during the Siege of Mariupol . A few undamaged trolleybuses continue to operate in battery-only mode with charging in the depot.
Sloviansk
19 March 1977
Vuhlehirsk
8 July 1982
12 August 2014
Closed due to extensive damage sustained during the War in Donbass .
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kharkiv
5 May 1939
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kherson
16 June 1960
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Khmelnytskyi
25 December 1970
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovohrad)
4 November 1967
Trolleybuses in Kyiv
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kyiv
5 November 1935
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Bila Tserkva
23 June 1980
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Alchevsk
26 September 1954
16 July 2022
An intercity trolleybus line from Alchevsk to Perevalsk operated from 1962 to 2008.
Closed due to extensive artillery damage to the depot and rolling stock sustained in the Russo-Ukrainian War .[3]
Antratsyt
27 September 1987
July 2018
Krasnodon/Sorokyne
30 December 1987
31 May 2023[4]
Luhansk
25 January 1962
19 July 2022[5]
Lysychansk
7 March 1972
25 February 2022
Operation suspended due to extensive damage sustained during the Battle of Lysychansk .[6] Reopening uncertain.
Sieverodonetsk
1 January 1978
27 February 2022
Operation suspended due to extensive damage sustained during the Battle of Sievierodonetsk .[7] Reopening uncertain.
Kadiivka (formerly Stakhanov)
1 March 1970
31 August 2011
Operation suspended 11 September 2008 – 15 July 2010.
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Lviv
27 November 1952
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Mykolaiv
29 October 1967
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Odesa
5 November 1945
Originally built in 1941, and trolley coaches were bought just before World War II started. But due to war hardships, the system was not able to be opened until 1945.
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kremenchuk
6 November 1966
Poltava
14 September 1962
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Rivne
27 December 1974
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Sevastopol
6 November 1950
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Sumy
25 August 1967
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Ternopil
24 December 1975
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Vinnytsia
20 February 1964
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Lutsk
8 April 1972
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
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Zaporizhzhia
22 December 1949
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Zhytomyr
1 May 1962
See also
References
^ "Bakhmut". transphoto.org . Retrieved 2023-02-12 .
^ "Mariupol". transphoto.org . Retrieved 2022-07-23 .
^ "Alchevsk". transphoto.org . Retrieved 2022-07-23 .
^ "Krasnodon". transphoto.org . Retrieved 2023-06-22 .
^ "Luhansk". transphoto.org . Retrieved 2022-07-23 .
^ "Lisichansk". transphoto.org . Retrieved 2022-07-23 .
^ "Severodonetsk". transphoto.org . Retrieved 2022-07-23 .
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.
Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.
External links
Media related to Trolleybuses in Ukraine at Wikimedia Commons
Urban public transport networks and systems in
Ukraine Metros
Operational Cancelled Projected
Trams Trolleybuses
Alchevsk
Antratsyt
Bila Tserkva
Cherkasy
Chernihiv
Chernivtsi
Dnipro
Donetsk
Horlivka
Ivano-Frankivsk
Kerch
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Khartsyzk
Kherson
Khmelnytskyi
Kramatorsk
Kropyvnytskyi
Kremenchuk
Kryvyi Rih
Luhansk
Lutsk
Lviv
Lysychansk
Makiivka
Mariupol
Mykolaiv
Odesa
Poltava
Rivne
Sevastopol
Severodonetsk
Simferopol–Alushta–Yalta
Sloviansk
Sorokyne
Sumy
Ternopil
Vinnytsia
Vuhlehirsk
Zaporizhzhia
Zhytomyr
Misсellaneous