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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 ...
The suspended trolleybus operations from October 2006 in Archangelsk were reactivated in December 2007. The trolleybus system in Grozny was completely destroyed in the First Chechen War; reconstruction is in planning. There is also one system with uncertain futures, in Voronezh. In other cities the development of trolleybus passenger services ...
The Petrozavodsk trolleybus system is the only existing trolleybus system in the Republic of Karelia of the Russian Federation and is one of the northern most trolleybus systems in the world. It is operated by the city-owned public transportation company "Gorodskoy Transport".
A cargo trolleybus system in the 'Pobeda' collective farm, Lahoysk. [114] Mahilyow: 19 January 1970 Minsk: 19 September 1952 The second largest network in world (after Moscow); see also Trolleybuses in Minsk: Snov 1950s 1960s A cargo trolleybus system in the Kolkhoz named after Mikhail Kalinin. [115] Vitebsk: 1 September 1978
In 1933 the Soviet Union's first trolleybus network (and the world's largest) debuted in Moscow, and production of the first Soviet trolleybus (the LK-1, named for Lazar Kaganovich) began. [8] During the Great Patriotic War, trolleybus production and service were suspended. Production resumed at the Tushino engineering plant in 1946. [9]
A small trolleybus system (using only 11 vehicles) operated in Caracas from 1937 [91] until about 1949, and a short-lived system existed in Valencia from 1941 to about 1947. [103] Many years later, a trolleybus system opened in Mérida in June 2007, [104] [105] but ceased operation in 2016. [106]
A Russian Railways Siemens Velaro Sapsan train. The transport network of the Russian Federation is one of the world's most extensive transport networks. The national web of roads, railways and airways stretches almost 7,700 km (4,800 mi) from Kaliningrad in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east, and major cities such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg are served by extensive rapid ...
The ZiU-5 (in Russian ЗиУ-5) is a Soviet trolleybus model that was built by the Uritsky factory. The ZiU acronym stands for Zavod imeni Uritskogo (in Russian Завод имени Урицкого, ЗиУ), which translates as Plant named after Uritskiy (Moisei Uritsky, a Russian revolutionary). This model of city trolleybus was in mass ...