This is a list of trolleybus systems in Ukraine by oblast . It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Cherkasy
9 November 1965
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Chernihiv
4 November 1964
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
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Chernivtsi
1 February 1939
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.
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Dnipro
7 November 1947
Kryvyi Rih
21 December 1957
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
2 March 2022[1]
Operation suspended due to heavy damage sustained in the Russo-Ukrainian War .
Sloviansk
19 March 1977
Vuhlehirsk
8 July 1982
12 August 2014
Closed due to extensive damage sustained during the War in Donbass
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Ivano-Frankivsk
31 December 1983
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kharkiv
5 May 1939
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kherson
16 June 1960
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Khmelnytskyi
25 December 1970
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovohrad)
4 November 1967
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kyiv
5 November 1935
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Bila Tserkva
23 June 1980
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Alchevsk
26 September 1954
16 July 2022
An intercity trolleybus line Alchevsk — Perevalsk operated from 1962 — 2008.
The depot and rolling stock was almost completely destroyed by rocket fire during the Russo-Ukrainian War , while the repair building was heavily damaged.[2] Reopening uncertain.
Two VMZ Avangard trolleybuses were promised to be delivered by September 2022.[3]
Antratsyt
27 September 1987
July 2018
Krasnodon/Sorokyne
30 December 1987
Luhansk
25 January 1962
19 July 2022[4]
Lysychansk
7 March 1972
25 February 2022
Sustained heavy damage during the Russo-Ukrainian War.[5] Reopening uncertain.
Sieverodonetsk
1 January 1978
27 February 2022
Sustained heavy damage during the Russo-Ukrainian War, with the majority of the contact network being destroyed.[6] Reopening uncertain.
Stakhanov/Kadiyivka
1 March 1970
31 August 2011
Operation suspended 11 September 2008 - 15 July 2010.
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Lviv
27 November 1952
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Mykolaiv
29 October 1967
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.
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Kremenchuk
6 November 1966
Poltava
14 September 1962
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Rivne
27 December 1974
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
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Sevastopol
6 November 1950
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Sumy
25 August 1967
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Ternopil
24 December 1975
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
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Vinnytsia
20 February 1964
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Lutsk
8 April 1972
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
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Zaporizhzhia
22 December 1949
Name of system
Location
Date (from)
Date (to)
Notes
Zhytomyr
1 May 1962
See also
References
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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