This is a list of trolleybus systems in Russia. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
Region | Location | From | To | Depots. (20.22) | Routes. (20.07) | Vehicles. (12.09) | Notes |
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Belgorod obl. | Belgorod | 3 Dec 1967 | - | 1 | 11 | 75 | - |
Stary Oskol | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1989, not completed. | |
Bryansk obl. | Bryansk | 3 Dec 1960 | - | 2 | 25 | 177 | - |
Vladimir obl. | Vladimir | 7 Nov 1952 | - | 2 | 8 | 135 | - |
Kovrov | 10 Mar 1975 | - | 1 | 6 | 60 | - | |
Voronezh obl. | Voronezh | 6 Nov 1960 | - | 2 | 6 | 90 | - |
Ivanovo obl. | Ivanovo | 5 Nov 1962 | - | 1 | 11 | 156 | - |
Kaluga obl. | Kaluga | 30 Mar 1956 | - | 1 | 14 | 125 | - |
Kostroma obl. | Kostroma | 10 Jan 1974 | - | 1 | 7 | 66 | - |
Kursk obl. | Kursk | 18 Aug 1972 | - | 1 | 8 | 81 | - |
Lipetsk obl. | Lipetsk | 1 Feb 1972 | 15 Aug 2017 | 1 | 9 | 122 | - |
Moscow | Moscow | 15 Nov 1933 | 25 Aug 2020 | 3 | 6 | 649 | Numbers given are at the time of closure. The first trolleybus system in Russia and in former USSR, it was the largest trolleybus system in the world for many years, from circa the mid-1950s until 2017. Retention of one trolleybus route as an attraction is foreseen. |
Moscow obl. | Khimki | 24 Jul 1997 | - | 1 | 3 | 27 | 2 routes (out of 3) run between Khimki and Moscow city |
Podolsk | 1 May 2001 | - | 1 | 4 | 38 | - | |
Vidnoye | 9 Sep 2000 | - | 1 | 4 | 21 | - | |
Oryol obl. | Oryol | 28 Oct 1968 | - | 1 | 8 | 111 | - |
Ryazan obl. | Ryazan | 13 Nov 1949 | - | 3 | 15 | 200 | - |
Smolensk obl. | Smolensk | 8 Apr 1991 | - | 1 | 2 | 43 | - |
Tambov obl. | Tambov | 6 Nov 1955 | - | 1 | 13 | 55 | - |
Tver obl. | Tver | 5 May 1967 | 13 April 2020 | 1 | 7 | 104 | - |
Tula obl. | Tula | 3 Nov 1962 | - | 1 | 10 | 115 | - |
Yaroslavl obl. | Rybinsk | 14 Dec 1976 | - | 1 | 7 | 67 | - |
Yaroslavl | 17 Nov 1949 | - | 2 | 7 | 141 | - |
Region | Location | From | To | Depots. (12.09) | Routes. (12.09) | Vehicles. (12.09) | Notes |
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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 | - |
Region | Location | From | To | Depots. (12.09) | Routes. (12.09) | Vehicles. (12.09) | Notes |
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Arkhangelsk obl. | Arkhangelsk | 14 Oct 1974 | 11 Apr 2008 | - | - | - | Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007. |
Vologda obl. | Cherepovets | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 1991; stopped ca. 1998. |
Vologda | 22 Aug 1979 | - | 1 | 6 | 90 | - | |
Kaliningrad obl. | Chernyakhovsk | 27 Nov 1936 | Jan 1945 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage. |
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 | - |
Leningrad obl. | Gatchina | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in 2004; following plans drawn up in the late 1980s. Construction was suspended in 2005 and is not currently expected to resume. |
Tosno | - | - | - | - | - | Reported by one source as under construction. No information since 2002. | |
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. |
Region | Location | From | To | Depots. (12.09) | Routes. (12.09) | Vehicles. (12.09) | Notes |
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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 | - |
Region | Location | From | To | Depots. (12.09) | Routes. (12.09) | Vehicles. (12.09) | Notes |
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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. | |
Volzhsky | - | - | - | - | - | Construction started in early 1990s; stopped 1998. | |
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 | - |
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 | - | |
Volgodonsk | 4 Oct 1977 | - | 1 | 6 | 32 | - | |
Chechnya | Grozny | 31 Dec 1975 | Dec 1994 | - | - | - | Closed because of war damage. Reconstruction planned. |
Region | Location | From | To | Depots. (12.09) | Routes. (12.09) | Vehicles. (12.09) | Notes |
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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. | |
Yekaterinburg | 17 Oct 1943 | - | 2 | 19 | 356 | - | |
Tyumen obl. | Tyumen | 12 Jun 1970 | 5 Oct 2009 | - | - | - | - |
Khanty–Mansi AO | Surgut | - | - | - | - | - | Reported by only one source as under construction. No confirmation, no recent information. |
Chelyabinsk obl. | Chelyabinsk | 22 Nov 1942 | - | 3 | 22 | 360 | - |
Miass | 1 Feb 1975 | - | 1 | 5 | 69 | - |
Region | Location | From | To | Depots. (12.09) | Routes. (12.09) | Vehicles. (12.09) | Notes |
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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 | 1 Jul 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. | |
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 | - |