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This is a list of trolleybus systems in Ukraine by oblast . It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
LAZ trolleybus in Ternopil , Ukraine
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Cherkasy 9 November 1965
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Chernihiv 4 November 1964
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Chernivtsi 1 February 1939
Name of System
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.
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Dnipro 7 November 1947
Kryvyi Rih 21 December 1957
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Bakhmut 29 April 1968
City was renamed from Artemivsk in 2016.
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, 7 November 1960. (Makiivka system opened 13 November 1969.)
Mariupol 21 April 1970
Sloviansk 19 March 1977
Vuhlehirsk 8 July 1982
12 August 2014
Closed due to extensive damage sustained during the War in Donbass
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Ivano-Frankivsk 31 December 1983
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Kharkiv 5 May 1939
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Kherson 16 June 1960
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Khmelnytskyi 25 December 1970
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Kropyvnytskyi 4 November 1967
Trolleybuses in Kyiv
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Kyiv 5 November 1935
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Bila Tserkva 23 June 1980
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Lviv 27 November 1952
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Mykolaiv 29 October 1967
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Odessa 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.
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Kremenchuk 6 November 1966
Poltava 14 September 1962
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Rivne 27 December 1974
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Sevastopol 6 November 1950
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Sumy 25 August 1967
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Ternopil 24 December 1975
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Vinnytsia 20 February 1964
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Lutsk 8 April 1972
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Zaporizhzhia 22 December 1949
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Zhytomyr 1 May 1962
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.
Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.
External links
Media related to Trolleybuses in Ukraine at Wikimedia Commons