List of trolleybus systems in Russia
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This is a list of trolleybus systems in Russia. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
List of trolleybus systems
| Region | Location | From | To | Depots (20.22)[clarification needed] [1] |
Routes (20.07) |
Vehicles (12.09) [2] |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Belgorod obl. |
 Belgorod |
3 Dec 1967 | - | 1 | 11 | 75 | - |
.png){kind=small} Stary Oskol |
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1989, not completed.[3][4] | |
 Bryansk obl. |
.png){kind=small} Bryansk |
3 Dec 1960 | - | 2 | 25 | 177 | - |
 Vladimir obl. |
.png){kind=small} Vladimir |
7 Nov 1952 | - | 2 | 8 | 135 | - |
.png){kind=small} Kovrov |
10 Mar 1975 | - | 1 | 6 | 60 | - | |
 Voronezh obl. |
 Voronezh |
6 Nov 1960 | - | 2 | 6 | 90 | - |
 Ivanovo obl. |
.svg){kind=small} Ivanovo |
5 Nov 1962 | - | 1 | 11 | 156 | - |
 Kaluga obl. |
 Kaluga |
30 Mar 1956 | - | 1 | 14 | 125 | - |
 Kostroma obl. |
_(1767).png){kind=small} Kostroma |
10 Jan 1974 | - | 1 | 7 | 66 | - |
 Kursk obl. |
 Kursk |
18 Aug 1972 | - | 1 | 8 | 81 | - |
 Lipetsk obl. |
.png){kind=small} Lipetsk |
1 Feb 1972 | 15 Aug 2017 | 1 | 9 | 122 | - |
 Moscow |
 Moscow |
15 Nov 1933 | 25 Aug 2020[5] | 3 | 6 | 649 | Numbers given are at the time of closure. The first trolleybus system in Russia and in former USSR,[6] it was the largest trolleybus system in the world for many years, from circa the mid-1950s until 2017.[7] One trolleybus route retained as an attraction.[8] |
 Moscow obl. |
 Khimki |
24 Jul 1997 | - | 1 | 3 | 27 | 2 routes (out of 3) run between Khimki and Moscow city |
.png){kind=small} Podolsk |
1 May 2001 | - | 1 | 4 | 38 | - | |
 Vidnoye |
9 Sep 2000 | - | 1 | 4 | 21 | - | |
 Oryol obl. |
 Oryol |
28 Oct 1968 | - | 1 | 8 | 111 | - |
 Ryazan obl. |
 Ryazan |
13 Nov 1949 | - | 3 | 15 | 200 | - |
 Smolensk obl. |
_(2001).png){kind=small} Smolensk |
8 Apr 1991 | - | 1 | 2 | 43 | - |
 Tambov obl. |
_(1781).png){kind=small} Tambov |
6 Nov 1955 | - | 1 | 13 | 55 | - |
 Tver obl. |
.png){kind=small} Tver |
5 May 1967 | 13 April 2020 | 1 | 7 | 104 | - |
 Tula obl. |
 Tula |
3 Nov 1962 | - | 1 | 10 | 115 | - |
 Yaroslavl obl. |
.png){kind=small} Rybinsk |
14 Dec 1976 | - | 1 | 7 | 67 | - |
.png){kind=small} Yaroslavl |
17 Nov 1949 | - | 2 | 7 | 141 | - |
| Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Amur obl. |
.png){kind=small} 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 | - |
| Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Arkhangelsk obl. |
_(1998).png){kind=small} Arkhangelsk |
14 Oct 1974 | 11 Apr 2008 | - | - | - | Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007.[9] |
 Vologda obl. |
_(1811).png){kind=small} Cherepovets |
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1991; stopped ca. 1998.[citation needed] |
_(1780).png){kind=small} Vologda |
22 Aug 1979 | - | 1 | 6 | 90 | - | |
 Kaliningrad obl. |
.png){kind=small} Chernyakhovsk |
27 Nov 1936 | Jan 1945 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage.[10] |
 Kaliningrad |
15 Oct 1943 | 27 Jan 1945 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage | |
| 5 Nov 1975 | - | 1 | 4 | 60 | - | ||
 Karelia |
.png){kind=small} Petrozavodsk |
5 Sep 1961 | - | 1 | 8 | 121 | - |
 Leningrad obl. |
.svg){kind=small} Gatchina |
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 2004;[11] 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. | |
 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 |
.svg){kind=small} Saint Petersburg |
21 Oct 1936 | - | 6 | 44 | 742 | Operation suspended Nov 1941 - 1945 because of war. |
| Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Altai krai |
_(1846).png){kind=small} Barnaul |
19 Oct 1973 | - | 1 | 5 | 57 | - |
 Rubtsovsk |
28 Dec 1973 | - | 1 | 2 | 49 | - | |
 Zabaykalsky krai |
.png){kind=small} Chita |
30 Dec 1970 | - | 1 | 5 | 77 | - |
 Irkutsk obl. |
 Irkutsk |
6 Nov 1970 | - | 1 | 5 | 40 | - |
.png){kind=small} 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 |
.png){kind=small} Krasnoyarsk |
5 Nov 1959 | - | 2 | 8 | 140 | - |
 Novosibirsk obl. |
 Novosibirsk |
11 Nov 1957 | - | 4 | 14 | 322 | - |
 Omsk obl. |
.svg){kind=small} Omsk |
5 Nov 1955 | - | 2 | 10 | 216 | - |
 Tomsk obl. |
 Tomsk |
7 Nov 1967 | - | 1 | 8 | 93 | - |
 Khakassia |
.png){kind=small} Abakan |
31 Dec 1980 | - | 1 | 12 | 24 | - |
| 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.[12] | |
.png){kind=small} Volzhsky |
- | - | - | - | - | Construction started in early 1990s; stopped 1998.[13] | |
 Dagestan |
 Makhachkala |
3 Feb 1973 | - | 1 | 3 | 46 | - |
 Kabardino-Balkaria |
 Nalchik |
22 Nov 1980 | - | 1 | 4 | 52 | - |
 Karachay–Cherkessia |
.png){kind=small} Cherkessk |
19 Dec 1988 | - | 1 | 9 | 42 | - |
 Krasnodar krai |
.png){kind=small} Armavir |
16 Jun 1973 | - | 1 | 5 | 44 | - |
.png){kind=small} Krasnodar |
28 Jul 1950 | - | 2 | 17 | 209 | - | |
_(2006).png){kind=small} Novorossiysk |
1 Apr 1969 | - | 1 | 14 | 79 | - | |
 North Ossetia |
 Vladikavkaz |
1 Feb 1977 | 8 Aug 2010 | 1 | 2 | 12 | - |
 Stavropol krai |
.png){kind=small} 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 | - | - | - | - | |
_(1808).png){kind=small} Taganrog |
25 Dec 1977 | - | 1 | 7 | 35 | - | |
.png){kind=small} Volgodonsk |
4 Oct 1977 | - | 1 | 6 | 32 | - | |
 Chechnya |
.png){kind=small} Grozny |
31 Dec 1975 | Dec 1994 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage. Reconstruction planned. |
| 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. |
.png){kind=small} Kachkanar |
11 Nov 1972 | Dec 1985 | - | - | - | - |
.png){kind=small} Kamensk-Uralsky |
1 Nov 1956 | 3 Mar 2015 | 1 | 3 | 59 | - | |
.png){kind=small} Nizhny Tagil |
- | - | - | - | - | Reported by only one source as under construction. Other sources state that construction was planned for 1996 but did not start. | |
.svg){kind=small} Yekaterinburg |
17 Oct 1943 | - | 2 | 19 | 356 | - | |
 Tyumen obl. |
_(2005).png){kind=small} Tyumen |
12 Jun 1970 | 5 Oct 2009 | - | - | - | - |
 Khanty–Mansi AO |
.jpg){kind=small} Surgut |
- | - | - | - | - | Reported by only one source as under construction. No confirmation, no recent information. |
 Chelyabinsk obl. |
.svg){kind=small} Chelyabinsk |
22 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 22 | 360 | - |
_(2002).png){kind=small} Miass |
1 Feb 1975 | - | 1 | 5 | 69 | - |
| Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bashkortostan |
.png){kind=small} 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 |
_(2005).png){kind=small} Yoshkar-Ola |
1 Feb 1971 | - | 1 | 12 | 158 | - |
 Mordovia |
.png){kind=small} 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. |
_(2001).png){kind=small} Penza |
4 Nov 1948 | - | 2 | 6 | 100 | - |
 Perm krai |
_(1981).png){kind=small} 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 | - |
.png){kind=small} Samara |
7 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 16 | 259 | - | |
 Syzran |
1 Sep 2002 | 1 Nov 2009 | - | - | - | - | |
_ceremonial.png){kind=small} Tolyatti |
21 Jan 1966 | - | 1 | 21 | 183 | - | |
 Saratov obl. |
.png){kind=small} Balakovo |
18 Nov 1967 | - | 2 | 10 | 60 | - |
.png){kind=small} Engels |
29 Apr 1964 | - | 1 | 4 | 55 | - | |
 Saratov |
6 Nov 1952 | - | 2 | 11 | 220 | - | |
 Tatarstan |
_(1987).png){kind=small} Almetyevsk |
13 Jan 1976 | - | 1 | 4 | 48 | - |
_(2004).png){kind=small} Kazan |
27 Nov 1948 | - | 2 | 16 | 238 | - | |
.png){kind=small} Naberezhnye Chelny |
- | - | - | - | - | Reported by one source as under construction. No recent information. | |
 Udmurtia |
.png){kind=small} Izhevsk |
6 Nov 1968 | - | 2 | 11 | 245 | - |
 Ulyanovsk obl. |
 Ulyanovsk |
31 Dec 1973 | - | 1 | 7 | 57 | - |
 Chuvashia |
.svg){kind=small} Cheboksary |
7 Nov 1964 | - | 3 | 19 | 301 | - |
_(2005).png){kind=small} 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
- ^ STTS[page needed]
- ^ STTS[page needed]
- ^ STTS
- ^ https://transphoto.ru/articles/2200/
- ^ "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. No. 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.
- ^ Trolleybus Magazine (TM) No. 278, March–April 2008, p. 45.v
- ^ 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)
