List of trolleybus systems in Russia

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

List of trolleybus systems

Region	Location	From	To	Depots (12.09) ^[1]	Routes (12.09)	Vehicles (12.09) ^[2]	Notes
Belgorod obl.	Belgorod	3 Dec 1967	-	1	11	75	-
Belgorod obl.	Stary Oskol	-	-	-	-	-	Construction started in 1989, not completed.^[3]^[4]
Bryansk obl.	Bryansk	3 Dec 1960	-	2	25	177	-
Vladimir obl.	Vladimir	7 Nov 1952	-	2	8	135	-
Vladimir obl.	Kovrov	10 Mar 1975	-	1	6	60	-
Voronezh obl.	Voronezh	6 Nov 1960	-	2	6	90	-
Ivanovo obl.	Ivanovo	5 Nov 1962	-	2	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	-	1	9	122	-
Moscow	Moscow	15 Nov 1933	-	8	104	1740	First and largest trolleybus system in Russia, and in former USSR.^[5] The largest trolleybus system in the world.^[6]
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	-	1	7	104	-
Tula obl.	Tula	3 Nov 1962	-	1	10	115	-
Yaroslavl obl.	Rybinsk	14 Dec 1976	-	1	7	67	-
Yaroslavl obl.	Yaroslavl	17 Nov 1949	-	2	7	141	-

Region	Location	From	To	Depots (12.09)	Routes (12.09)	Vehicles (12.09)	Notes
Crimea	Alushta	20 Aug 1993	-	1	3	?	-
	Kerch	18 Sep 2004	-	1	1	14	-
	Simferopol	7 Oct 1959	-	1	12	?	see also Simferopol - Alushta - Yalta.
	Simferopol - Alushta - Yalta	6 Nov 1959	-	1	5	?	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	-	1	3	?	see also Simferopol - Alushta - Yalta.
Sevastopol	Sevastopol	6 Nov 1950	-	2	14	143	-

Region	Location	From	To	Depots (12.09)	Routes (12.09)	Vehicles (12.09)	Notes
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
Arkhangelsk obl.	Arkhangelsk	14 Oct 1974	11 Apr 2008	-	-	-	Operation suspended October 2006 - December 2007.^[7]
Vologda obl.	Cherepovets	-	-	-	-	-	Construction started in 1991; stopped ca. 1998.^[8]
Vologda obl.	Vologda	22 Aug 1979	-	1	6	90	-
Kaliningrad obl.	Chernyakhovsk	27 Nov 1936	Jan 1945	-	-	-	Closed because of war damage.^[9]
	Kaliningrad	15 Oct 1943	27 Jan 1945	-	-	-	Closed because of war damage
	Kaliningrad	5 Nov 1975	-	1	4	60	-
Karelia	Petrozavodsk	5 Sep 1961	-	1	8	121	-
Leningrad obl.	Gatchina	-	-	-	-	-	Construction started in 2004;^[10] following plans drawn up in the late 1980s. Construction was suspended in 2005 and is not currently expected to resume.
Leningrad obl.	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
Altai krai	Barnaul	19 Oct 1973	-	1	5	57	-
Altai krai	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	-
Irkutsk obl.	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
Adygea	Maykop	29 Nov 1974	-	1	12	53	-
Astrakhan obl.	Astrakhan	5 Nov 1967	-	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.^[11]
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	6	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
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	-
Chelyabinsk obl.	Miass	1 Feb 1975	-	1	5	69	-

Region	Location	From	To	Depots (12.09)	Routes (12.09)	Vehicles (12.09)	Notes
Bashkortostan	Sterlitamak	24 Feb 1961	-	2	23	195	-
Bashkortostan	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 obl.	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 krai	Perm	5 Nov 1960	-	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	-	2	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	-
Chuvashia	Novocheboksarsk	2 Nov 1979	-	1	4	48	-

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