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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 ...
One of the most notable of these new trolleybus systems was the Crimean Trolleybus, currently the world's longest trolleybus line. Production at the time was limited to the monopoly Zavod imeni Uritskogo (ZiU, named after Moisei Uritsky). It produced thousands of MTB-82, ZiU-5, and ZiU-9 passenger trolleybuses for domestic purposes and for ...
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]
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 ...
A HRT trolley bus in 1944. TheBus' origin was The Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land Company, which operated buses and trolley lines mostly in the Honolulu district, while most outlying areas were serviced by competing bus companies. Honolulu Rapid Transit (HRT) was founded on June 6, 1898, the same day that Hawaiʻi was annexed by the United ...
The rolling stock of Khimki trolleybus consist of 29 cars, most of them are Soviet-Russian trolleybuses ZiU-682G-016.05 and ZiU-682G-016 [G0M] (23 cars). Another 6 cars were purchased between 2013 and 2018, 4 cars are TrolZa-5265 "Megapolis" and 2 cars are VMZ-5298.01 "Avangard".
A 1st gen ZiU-9 trolleybus in Moscow, Russia. ZiU-9, or ZIU-9 (Cyrillic: ЗиУ-9) is a Soviet (and later Russian) trolleybus. Other names for the ZiU-9 are ZiU-682 and HTI-682 (Cyrillic: ЗиУ-682 and ХТИ-682). The ZiU acronym stands for Zavod imeni Uritskogo, which is a factory named after Moisei Uritsky, the Russian revolutionary.