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List of trolleybus systems in Ukraine

This is a list of trolleybus systems in Ukraine by oblast. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.

LAZ trolleybus in Ternopil, Ukraine

Cherkasy Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Cherkasy 9 November 1965

Chernihiv Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Chernihiv 4 November 1964

Chernivtsi Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Chernivtsi 1 February 1939

Autonomous Republic of Crimea edit

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.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Dnipro 7 November 1947
Kryvyi Rih 21 December 1957

Donetsk Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Bakhmut (known as Artemivsk before 2016) 29 April 1968 29 June 2022[1] Operation suspended due to extensive artillery damage to the depot and rolling stock, sustained at the start of the Battle of Bakhmut. Reopening uncertain.
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 on 7 November 1960, however no connection exists between the Donetsk and Makiivka trolleybus systems.
Mariupol 21 April 1970 2 March 2022[2] Operation suspended due to extensive damage sustained during the Siege of Mariupol. A few undamaged trolleybuses continue to operate in battery-only mode with charging in the depot.
Sloviansk 19 March 1977
Vuhlehirsk 8 July 1982 12 August 2014 Closed due to extensive damage sustained during the War in Donbass.

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Ivano-Frankivsk 31 December 1983

Kharkiv Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Kharkiv 5 May 1939

Kherson Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Kherson 16 June 1960

Khmelnytskyi Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Khmelnytskyi 25 December 1970

Kirovohrad Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovohrad) 4 November 1967

Kyiv edit

 
Trolleybuses in Kyiv
Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Kyiv 5 November 1935

Kyiv Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Bila Tserkva 23 June 1980

Luhansk Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Alchevsk 26 September 1954 16 July 2022 An intercity trolleybus line from Alchevsk to Perevalsk operated from 1962 to 2008.

Closed due to extensive artillery damage to the depot and rolling stock sustained in the Russo-Ukrainian War.[3]

Antratsyt 27 September 1987 July 2018
Krasnodon/Sorokyne 30 December 1987 31 May 2023[4]
Luhansk 25 January 1962 19 July 2022[5]
Lysychansk 7 March 1972 25 February 2022 Operation suspended due to extensive damage sustained during the Battle of Lysychansk.[6] Reopening uncertain.
Sieverodonetsk 1 January 1978 27 February 2022 Operation suspended due to extensive damage sustained during the Battle of Sievierodonetsk.[7] Reopening uncertain.
Kadiivka (formerly Stakhanov) 1 March 1970 31 August 2011 Operation suspended 11 September 2008 – 15 July 2010.

Lviv Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Lviv 27 November 1952

Mykolaiv Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Mykolaiv 29 October 1967

Odesa Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Odesa 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.

Poltava Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Kremenchuk 6 November 1966
Poltava 14 September 1962

Rivne Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Rivne 27 December 1974

Sevastopol edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Sevastopol 6 November 1950

Sumy Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Sumy 25 August 1967

Ternopil Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Ternopil 24 December 1975

Vinnytsia Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Vinnytsia 20 February 1964

Volyn Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Lutsk 8 April 1972

Zaporizhzhia Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Zaporizhzhia 22 December 1949

Zhytomyr Oblast edit

Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes
Zhytomyr 1 May 1962

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Bakhmut". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  2. ^ "Mariupol". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  3. ^ "Alchevsk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  4. ^ "Krasnodon". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  5. ^ "Luhansk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  6. ^ "Lisichansk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  7. ^ "Severodonetsk". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-07-23.

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.
  • Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.

External links edit

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