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.

LAZ trolleybus in Ternopil, Ukraine

Cherkasy Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Cherkasy 9 November 1965

Chernihiv Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Chernihiv 4 November 1964

Chernivtsi Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Chernivtsi 1 February 1939

Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) 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 (53.7 mi). See Crimean Trolleybus.
Yalta 1 May 1961 See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Dnipro 7 November 1947
Kryvyi Rih 21 December 1957

Donetsk Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Bakhmut (formerly known as Artemivsk) 29 April 1968 City was renamed from Artemivsk in 2016.
Dobropillia 23 August 1968 15 March 2011
Donetsk 3 January 1940
Dzerzhynsk (now known as Toretsk) 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. (Makiivka system opened 13 November 1969.)
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 (From) Date (To) Notes
Ivano-Frankivsk 31 December 1983

Kharkiv Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Kharkiv 5 May 1939

Kherson Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Kherson 16 June 1960

Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Khmelnytskyi 25 December 1970

Kirovohrad Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovohrad) 4 November 1967

Kyiv
Trolleybuses in Kyiv
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Kyiv 5 November 1935

Kyiv Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Bila Tserkva 23 June 1980

Luhansk Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) 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 Operations suspended September 2008 - 15 July 2010.

Lviv Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Lviv 27 November 1952

Mykolaiv Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Mykolaiv 29 October 1967

Odessa Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) 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 (From) Date (To) Notes
Kremenchuk 6 November 1966
Poltava 14 September 1962

Rivne Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Rivne 27 December 1974

Sevastopol
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Sevastopol 6 November 1950

Sumy Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Sumy 25 August 1967

Ternopil Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Ternopil 24 December 1975

Vinnytsia Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Vinnytsia 20 February 1964

Volyn Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Lutsk 8 April 1972

Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Zaporizhzhia 22 December 1949

Zhytomyr Oblast
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
Zhytomyr 1 May 1962

See also

Sources

Books and periodicals
  • Murray, Alan. 2000. "World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia" (ISBN 0-904235-18-1). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
  • Peschkes, Robert. 1987. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus and Rapid Transit Systems, Part Two: Asia & USSR /Africa/Australia" (ISBN 0-948619-00-7). London: Rapid Transit Publications.
  • "Straßenbahnatlas ehem. Sowjetunion / Tramway Atlas of the former USSR" (ISBN 3-926524-15-4). 1996. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn, in conjunction with Light Rail Transit Association, London.
  • Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.
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