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 (12.09) [1] |
Routes (12.09) |
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. | .png){kind=small} Ivanovo | 5 Nov 1962 | - | 2 | 11 | 156 | - |
 Kaluga obl. |  Kaluga | 30 Mar 1956 | - | 1 | 14 | 125 | - |
 Kostroma obl. |  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 | - | 1 | 9 | 122 | - |
 Moscow |  Moscow | 15 Nov 1933 | - | 8 | 104 | 1740 | First and largest trolleybus system in Russia, and in former USSR.[5] The largest trolleybus system in the world.[6] |
 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. | _(1781).png){kind=small} 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 | - | 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 | - |
Crimean Federal District
| Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Crimea | Alushta | 20 Aug 1993 | - | 1 | 3 | ? | - |
| Kerch | 18 Sep 2004 | - | 1 | 1 | 14 | - | |
| Simferopol | 7 Oct 1959 | - | 1 | 12 | ? | see also Simferopol - Alushta - Yalta. | |
| Simferopol - Alushta - Yalta | 6 Nov 1959 | - | 1 | 5 | ? | 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 | - | 1 | 3 | ? | see also Simferopol - Alushta - Yalta. | |
 Sevastopol | Sevastopol | 6 Nov 1950 | - | 2 | 14 | 143 | - |
Far Eastern Federal District
| Region | Location | From | To | Depots (12.09) |
Routes (12.09) |
Vehicles (12.09) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Amur obl. | .png){kind=small} Blagoveshchensk | 22 Aug 1979 | - | 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. | _(1998).png){kind=small} Arkhangelsk | 14 Oct 1974 | 11 Apr 2008 | - | - | - | Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007.[7] |
 Vologda obl. | _(1811).png){kind=small} Cherepovets | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1991; stopped ca. 1998.[8] |
_(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.[9] |
 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.png){kind=small} Gatchina | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 2004;[10] 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 | .png){kind=small} 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 | _(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. |  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 | - |
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 | - | 1 | 3 | 40 | - |
 Volgograd obl. |  Volgograd | 31 Dec 1960 | - | 4 | 15 | 357 | - |
| Kamyshin | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started 1985 and stopped 1991. | |
.png){kind=small} Volzhsky | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in early 1990s; stopped 1998.[11] | |
 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 | 6 | 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. |
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. | .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.png){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.png){kind=small} Chelyabinsk | 22 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 22 | 360 | - |
_(2002).png){kind=small} 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 | .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. | .png){kind=small} 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 | 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 | - | 2 | 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 | .png){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
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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