Bus fleet number 1 (St. Petersburg)

Soviet period

Bus fleet number 1 is the oldest in the city of all operating. On September 1, 1926, the Department of Public Utilities (Otkomkhoz) of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Executive Committee opened a route along the route from Detskoselsky Station along Komissarovskaya Street to the workers' garden . Initially, the buses were located at the warehouse of Otkomkhoz at 3 Zubov Lane .

In 1930, the territory was allocated for a bus depot in the former Manege of the Stables Department . As traffic volumes increased and, as a result, the number of buses, she could no longer accommodate the entire rolling stock. In 1932, at the corner of Dnepropetrovskaya street and Rasstanny lane, the Volkovsky Garage freight truck fleet was opened, where in 1933 a branch of the park was organized. In 1938, all trucks were transferred to another site, and the bus depot was completely transferred from Konyushennaya Square to Dnepropetrovskaya Street 18. This area is still used today as a repair zone for the park and museum of St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise Passazhiravtotrans .

Before the start of World War II, bus fleet No. 1 was the largest automobile fleet in the city, it had 284 buses and served twenty routes.

During World War II, part of the vehicles was transferred to the front. The remaining vehicles supported traffic on some routes, transported military units to the front, and evacuated the population of the city. In honor of the feat of motorists of the 1st bus fleet who did not return from the war, in 1985 a memorial was created on the territory of the park.

Post-war reconstruction required a large amount of work and personnel. At this time, the park was filled with new samples of buses due to reparations.

It was decided to release the L-1 wagon-type bus with a wooden body on its own in Leningrad. During the year, 102 such buses were built. And in November 1947, the first 4 60-seater diesel electric buses ZIS-154 with an all-metal wagon-type body arrived - the first-born bus manufacturers in the post-war period. Models were improved, comfort was improved and technical and operational indicators improved.

In 1947, the fleet began servicing intercity, interregional, and inter-republican passenger transportation, first with ZIS-155 buses, and then with new ZIS-127 high-speed cars. Buses have already been used to organize tourist trips.

The park received the first comfortable buses from Hungary - Ikarus 55 "Lux" with soft reclining seats in 1961, and in March 1967 the first two Ikarus 180 buses of extra large capacity appeared - 200 people for urban transportation. The 1st bus fleet was one of the first in the country to start their operation.

Then the reconstruction and expansion of the production and technical base was carried out. In 1974, the first production association was equipped on the basis of bus depot No. 1. In 1975, the construction of a branch on 18 Bucharest Street was completed, designed to service 270 buses. With the opening of the branch, all city cars were transferred there, and on the territory of the Volkovsky Garage, intercity and registered buses were serviced.

Post-Soviet period

In the 1990s, due to changes in the situation in the country, the supply of new rolling stock was sharply reduced, however, by the 1994 Goodwill Games, the fleet received ten comfortable 50-seater Ikarus 250 buses, several more later. In 1995-1997, about 200 buses of the Ikarus 280.33O model entered the park ^[1] .

In the mid-90s, the park began servicing commercial routes. Hyundai Chorus , Mercedes buses and part of the intercity column cars worked on them.

Improving the overall economic situation in the country made it possible to renew rolling stock. Arrivals of cars of the Likinsky bus plant LiAZ-5256 and their modifications, high-floor and low-floor buses of model 6270 of the Volzhanin plant began . For the intercity convoy, Volzhanin-5285.10 , Volzhanin-52702-10-02 buses were purchased.

In 2003 and 2004, the bus fleet No. 1 took the second place of the St. Petersburg Prize for the quality of transportation.

In 2008-2009, the park was updated with CityRitm buses .

From March 16, 2006, bus fleet No. 3, located on Khrustalnaya Street (including the branch of the park in Kirovsk on Dubrovskaya Street), stopped working and was transformed into a branch of bus fleet No. 1. From April 1, 2006 to March 1, 2013 in the territory of the former bus depot was the site of "Crystal" company " Piteravto ". Currently, the site is being reconstructed for the operation of up to 250 gas-fueled buses ^{[2] [3]} .

• Brochure "90 years of the bus fleet number 1"
• Page about the site on Dnepropetrovskaya street, 18 on Citywalls website