Yalta Tram

The project for the construction of a tram line from Yalta to Alupka and Gurzuf in 1905 was proposed by Westinghouse, but the project was rejected by the City Duma.

The second time the proposal was made in May 1908 by entrepreneur S. Chaev. The Duma signed a contract with him, according to which the Yalta- Bakhchisaray line was to be built and the length of the urban section should be 4.5 km. He received a concession for 60 years and in 1909 developed a draft network of lines. According to him, the main line went from Massandra to the city center, the embankment and along the Yauzlar river, from Pushkin Boulevard there should be a branch to Livadia. The project was approved in November 1910, but a month later they abandoned the project.

The third proposal came in 1912 from engineer P. Makarivsky. His project included the construction of three city lines. However, due to financial problems, the question did not budge. In the end, in 1914, 1916 and 1917, Yalta decided to build a tram on its own, but because of the war, the plans remained only plans.

However, the idea continued to live after the events of 1917. Already in 1925, a project for the construction of three lines was drawn up:

1. st. Lomonosov - Massandra (4.3 km long);
2. along the Derekoy River to the village of Derekoy (Ushchelny) (1.4 km long);
3. Embankment - Livadia (1.3 km). On the way was the earthquake of 1927 .

The last time they returned to the tram construction project was in 1937, when the design of the Yalta- Simeiz 25-km line was started. However, like the previous ones, this project of the Yalta tram and the tram itself remained only on paper. Electric transport in Yalta appeared in the form of a trolleybus in 1961.

Electric Transport of Ukraine: Encyclopedic Guide / Sergey Tarkhov, Kost Kozlov, Aare Olander. - Kiev: Sidorenko V. B., 2010 .-- 912 p.: Ill., Schemes. - ISBN 978-966-2321-11-1 .

• Simferopol trolley bus
• Yalta bus