List of trolleybus systems in Russia

Trolza trolleybus in Moscow, 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
(as of July 2021) 		Routes Vehicles
(as of July 2021) 		Notes
Belgorod obl. Belgorod 3 December 1967 30 June 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 December 1960 - 1[5] 11[5] 93[6] -
Vladimir obl. Vladimir 5 November 1952[7] - 1[7] 9 70[8] 'Officially' opened on 7 November 1952[7]
Kovrov 6 March 1975[9] - 1[9] 6+2 special[9] 57[10] -
Voronezh obl. Voronezh 6 November 1960 - 1[11] 4[11] 61[12] Only 33 in actual service[12]
Ivanovo obl. Ivanovo 5 November 1962[13] - 1[13] 11[13] 138[14] 108 in service[14]
Kaluga obl. Kaluga 30 March 1956[15] - 1[15] 14 107[16] 70 in service
Kostroma obl. Kostroma 10 January 1974[17] 30 June 2023 1[17] 7 53[18] Operated by MUE 'Trolleybusnoe Upravlenie'
Kursk obl. Kursk 21 August 1972[19] - 1[19] 8 80[20] -
Lipetsk obl. Lipetsk 1 February 1972 15 August 2017[21] 1 5[21] 39[21] Trolleybuses were operated by MUP 'Lipetskpassazhirtrans'[21]

Statistics at time of closing

Moscow Moscow 15 November 1933 25 August 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 July 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 September 2000 - 1[32] 3[33] 21[34] Operated by MUE 'Vidnoe Trolleybus Depot'[32]
Oryol obl. Oryol 29 October 1968[35] - 1 4[35] 59[36] Operated by MUP 'Tram and trolleybus enterprise'[35]
Ryazan obl. Ryazan 13 November 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 April 1991[39] - 1[39] 4[39] 102[40] Operated by Smolensk Municipal Unitary Tram and Trolleybus Enterprise[41]
Tambov obl. Tambov 5 November 1955[42] 30 September 2025[43] 1[42] 3[42] 15[44] Operated by ME 'Tambovgorstrans'[42]

7 vehicles in operation[44]

Tver obl. Tver 5 May 1967 14 April 2020[45] 1 7 104 -
Tula obl. Tula 5 November 1962[46] - 1[46] 7[46] 100[47] Operated by MUE 'Tulgorelectrotrans'[46]
Yaroslavl obl. Rybinsk 14 December 1976[48] - 1 4[48] 61[49] Operated by JSC Rybinskelectrotrans[48]
Yaroslavl 7 November 1949[46] - 1[50] 7[50] 107[51] Operated by JSC 'Yargorelectrotrans'[50]

Far Eastern Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
Amur obl. Blagoveshchensk 22 August 1979 08 July 2016 1 2 31 -
Khabarovsk krai Khabarovsk 17 January 1975 - 1 4 54 -
Primorsky krai Vladivostok 29 January 1965 - 1 4 38 -

Northwestern Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
Arkhangelsk obl. Arkhangelsk 14 October 1974 11 April 2008 - - - Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007.[52]
Vologda obl. Cherepovets - - - - - Construction started in 1992; stopped ca. 1996, remaining infrastructure dismantled 2008[53]
Vologda 30 December 1976 - 1 6 90 -
Kaliningrad obl. Chernyakhovsk 27 November 1936 January 1945 - - - Operated by Stadtwerke Omnibusbetrieb Insterburg

Closed because of war damage.[54] During the period of operation of the trolleybus network, the city was known as Insterburg.[55]

Kaliningrad 15 October 1943 27 January 1945 - - - Closed because of war damage
5 November 1975 - 1 4 60 -
Karelia Petrozavodsk 5 September 1961 - 1 8 121 See Trolleybuses in Petrozavodsk
Leningrad obl. Gatchina - - - - - Construction started in 2004;[56] following plans drawn up in the late 1980s. Construction was suspended in 2005 and is not expected to resume.[57]
Tosno - - - - - Reported by one source as under construction. No information since 2002.[citation needed]
Murmansk obl. Murmansk 11 February 1962 - 2 5 141 World's northernmost trolleybus system.
Novgorod obl. Veliky Novgorod 3 December 1995 - 1 5 40 -
Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg 21 October 1936 - 6 44 742 Operation suspended Nov 1941 - 1945 because of war.

Siberian Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
Altai krai Barnaul 19 October 1973 - 1 5 57 -
Rubtsovsk 28 December 1973 - 1 2 49 -
Zabaykalsky krai Chita 30 December 1970 - 1 5 77 -
Irkutsk obl. Irkutsk 6 November 1970 - 1 5 40 -
Bratsk 1 February 1975 - 1 5 50 -
Kemerovo obl. Kemerovo 25 September 1970 - 1 10 88 -
Leninsk-Kuznetsky 11 January 1984 - 1 3 31 -
Novokuznetsk 1 January 1978 - 1 4 53 -
Krasnoyarsk krai Krasnoyarsk 5 November 1959 - 2 8 140 -
Novosibirsk obl. Novosibirsk 11 November 1957 - 4 14 322 -
Omsk obl. Omsk 5 November 1955 - 2 10 216 -
Tomsk obl. Tomsk 7 November 1967 - 1 8 93 -
Khakassia Abakan 31 December 1980 - 1 12 24 -

Southern Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
Adygea Maykop 29 November 1974 - 1 12 53 -
Astrakhan obl. Astrakhan 5 November 1967 30 October 2017 1 3 40 -
Volgograd obl. Volgograd 31 December 1960 - 4 15 357 -
Kamyshin - - - - - Construction started 1985 and stopped 1991.[58]
Volzhsky - - - - - Construction started in early 1990s; stopped 1998.[59]
Dagestan Makhachkala 3 February 1973 18 December 2025 1 3 46 -
Kabardino-Balkaria Nalchik 22 November 1980 - 1 4 52 -
Karachay–Cherkessia Cherkessk 19 December 1988 - 1 9 42 -
Krasnodar krai Armavir 16 June 1973 - 1 5 44 -
Krasnodar 28 July 1950 - 2 17 209 -
Novorossiysk 1 April 1969 - 1 14 79 -
North Ossetia Vladikavkaz 1 February 1977 8 August 2010 1 2 12 A PKTS-6281.00 'Admiral' trolleybus was delivered on May 30, 2022.[60]
Stavropol krai Stavropol 24 July 1964 - 1 9 96 -
Rostov obl. Rostov-on-Don 18 March 1936 - 2 8 108 -
Shakhty 30 September 1975 27 October 2007 - - - -
Taganrog 25 December 1977 5 May 2022 1 7 35 Operated by MUE 'TTU'

Trolleybus traffic suspended since May 2022 due to repairs on electricity substations.[61]

Volgodonsk 4 October 1977 - 1 6 32 -
Chechnya Grozny 31 December 1975 December 1994 - - - Closed because of war damage.[62]

Urals Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
Kurgan obl. Kurgan 24 November 1965 29 April 2015 1 4 33 -
Sverdlovsk obl. Kachkanar 11 November 1972 December 1985 - - - -
Kamensk-Uralsky 1 November 1956 3 March 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 October 1943 - 2 19 356 -
Tyumen obl. Tyumen 12 June 1970 5 October 2009 - - - Service operated by ME 'Trolleybusnoe Predpriyatie'[63]
Khanty–Mansi AO Surgut - - - - - Reported by only one source as under construction. No confirmation, no recent information.[citation needed]
Chelyabinsk obl. Chelyabinsk 22 November 1942 - 3 22 360 -
Miass 1 February 1985 - 1 5 69 -

Volga Federal District

Region Location From To Depots Routes Vehicles Notes
(As of September 2012)
Bashkortostan Sterlitamak 24 February 1961 - 2 23 195 -
Ufa 27 January 1962 - 2 21 211 -
Kirov obl. Kirov 8 November 1943 - 2 8 157 -
Mari El Yoshkar-Ola 1 February 1971 - 1 12 158 -
Mordovia Saransk 29 January 1966 - 2 17 141 -
Nizhny Novgorod obl. Dzerzhinsk 15 April 1976 - 1 5 79 -
Nizhny Novgorod 27 June 1947 - 3 21 227 -
Orenburg obl. Orenburg 1 May 1953 - 1 5 99 -
Penza obl. Penza 4 November 1948 - 2 6 100 -
Perm krai Berezniki 14 March 1961 - 1 11 N/A -
Perm 5 November 1960 30 June 2019 1 13 136 -
Samara obl. Novokuybyshevsk 4 January 1986 - 1 16 56 -
Samara 7 November 1942 - 3 16 259 -
Syzran 1 September 2002 1 November 2009 - - - -
Tolyatti 21 January 1966 - 1 21 183 -
Saratov obl. Balakovo 18 November 1967 - 2 10 60 -
Engels 29 April 1964 - 1 4 55 -
Saratov 6 November 1952 - 2 11 220 -
Tatarstan Almetyevsk 13 January 1976 - 1 4 48 -
Kazan 27 November 1948 - 2 16 238 -
Udmurtia Izhevsk 6 November 1968 - 2 11 245 -
Ulyanovsk obl. Ulyanovsk 31 December 1973 - 1 7 57 -
Chuvashia Cheboksary 7 November 1964 - 3 19 301 -
Novocheboksarsk 2 November 1979 - 1 4 48 -

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.
  • 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.

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