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.
, Ukraine
[Cherkasy Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Cherkasy | 9 November 1965 |
[Chernihiv Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Chernihiv | 4 November 1964 |
[Chernivtsi Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Chernivtsi | 1 February 1939 |
[Autonomous Republic of Crimea]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | 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. See Crimean Trolleybus. | ||
Yalta | 1 May 1961 | See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta. |
[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Dnipro | 7 November 1947 | |||
Kryvyi Rih | 21 December 1957 |
[Donetsk Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Bakhmut | 29 April 1968 | City was renamed from Artemivsk in 2016. | ||
Dobropillia | 23 August 1968 | 15 March 2011 | ||
Donetsk | 3 January 1940 | |||
Dzerzhynsk | 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, 7 November 1960. | ||
Mariupol | 21 April 1970 | |||
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]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Ivano-Frankivsk | 31 December 1983 |
[Kharkiv Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Kharkiv | 5 May 1939 |
[Kherson Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Kherson | 16 June 1960 |
[Khmelnytskyi Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Khmelnytskyi | 25 December 1970 |
[Kirovohrad Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Kropyvnytskyi | 4 November 1967 |
[Kiev]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Kiev | 5 November 1935 |
[Kiev Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Bila Tserkva | 23 June 1980 |
[Luhansk Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Alchevsk | 26 September 1954 | Trolleybus line Alchevsk — Perevalsk was working in period 1962 — 2008 | ||
Antratsyt | 27 September 1987 | |||
Krasnodon/Sorokyne | 30 December 1987 | |||
Luhansk | 25 January 1962 | |||
Lysychansk | 7 March 1972 | |||
Sieverodonetsk | 1 January 1979 | |||
Stakhanov/Kadiyivka | 1 March 1970 | 31 August 2011 | Operation suspended September 2008 - 15 July 2010. |
[Lviv Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Lviv | 27 November 1952 |
[Mykolaiv Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Mykolaiv | 29 October 1967 |
[Odessa Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Odessa | 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]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Kremenchuk | 6 November 1966 | |||
Poltava | 14 September 1962 |
[Rivne Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Rivne | 27 December 1974 |
[Sevastopol]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Sevastopol | 6 November 1950 |
[Sumy Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Sumy | 25 August 1967 |
[Ternopil Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Ternopil | 24 December 1975 |
[Vinnytsia Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Vinnytsia | 20 February 1964 |
[Volyn Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Lutsk | 8 April 1972 |
[Zaporizhia Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Zaporizhia | 22 December 1949 |
[Zhytomyr Oblast]
Name of System | Location | Date | Date | Notes |
Zhytomyr | 1 May 1962 |
Books and periodicals
- Murray, Alan. 2000. "World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia". Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
- Peschkes, Robert. 1987. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus and Rapid Transit Systems, Part Two: Asia & USSR /Africa/Australia". London: Rapid Transit Publications.
- "Straßenbahnatlas ehem. Sowjetunion / Tramway Atlas of the former USSR". 1996. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn, in conjunction with Light Rail Transit Association, London.
- Trolleybus Magazine. National Trolleybus Association. Bimonthly.