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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[edit]

Central Federal District[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Sources[edit]

Books and periodicals[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ "Belgorod". Retrieved August 2, 2022.
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  3. ^ "Belgorod, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  4. ^ "Stary Oskol — Trolleybus line". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  5. ^ a b "Bryansk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  6. ^ "Bryansk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  8. ^ "Vladimir, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  11. ^ a b "Voronezh". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  15. ^ a b "Kaluga". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  16. ^ "Kaluga, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  17. ^ a b "Kostroma". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  18. ^ "Kostroma, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  19. ^ a b "Kursk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  20. ^ "Kursk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  21. ^ a b c d "Lipetsk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  22. ^ "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.
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  24. ^ Klimov, Konstantin (March–April 2019). "Sunset over the Trolleybus Empire". Trolleybus Magazine. No. 344. UK: National Trolleybus Association. p. 52. ISSN 0266-7452.
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  27. ^ "Карта маршрутов". himtrol.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  29. ^ a b "Podolsk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  30. ^ "Карта маршрутов Подольских троллейбусов". www.muppt.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  32. ^ a b "Vidnoye". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  35. ^ a b c "Oryol". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  36. ^ "Oryol, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  37. ^ a b "Ryazan". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  38. ^ a b "Ryazan, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  39. ^ a b c "Smolensk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  40. ^ "Smolensk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  41. ^ "История предприятия" (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  44. ^ "Tver". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  48. ^ "Rybinsk, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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  50. ^ "Yaroslavl, Trolleybus — Vehicle Statistics". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  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".

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