Astrakhan trolley bus

The operation of the trolleybus network was carried out by MUATP "Municipal Unitary Bus and Trolleybus Enterprise", located at 414040, Astrakhan , pl. Karla Marksa, 35, General Director: Asylbek Dzhangirov from September 26, 2017 to October 30, 2017. The former company Astrakhanelektropassazhirtrans LLC was declared bankrupt.

1967 year

On November 5, the first line was opened in the city center, 7.3 km long:

• st. Savushkina, st. Henri Barbusse, st. Victory st. Sverdlov, st. Zhelyabova (Admiralteyskaya), from the Central Sadion to the street. Kotovsky

Traffic along the route " Stadium - Cinema" Rodina "" was opened by trolleybuses of the ZiU-5 model, which were based on the territory of a tram park on Victory Street.

1968 year

On November 16, the second line of the line, 1.25 km long, was opened:

• st. 50 years of the Komsomol (Combat), from the street. Kotovsky to the street Nikolai Ostrovsky

With the opening of the second stage, the previously opened route was extended:

• “Stadium - d / c“ ATRZ “(Zhilgorodok)”

1969 year

On November 12, the third line of the line, 1.3 km long, was opened:

• st. 50 years of the Komsomol, from the street. Nikolai Ostrovsky to the railway crossing

With the opening of the new line, the previously opened route is also extended.

• "Stadium - School number 37"

1971 year

On November 7, the fourth line of the line was opened which reached the Astrakhan diesel locomotive repair plant, 1.25 km long:

• st. 50 years of the Komsomol, from the railway crossing to the Tsarev River

With the opening of the fourth stage, the route is finally extended:

• "Stadium - ATRZ"

The length of the route was 22 km of a single line. About 20 trolleybuses have already run on the route.

1978 year

In September of this year, trolleybuses of the ZiU-9 model first appeared on the city streets.

1979 year

By July 10 (and possibly earlier) a new line was built, 1.2 km long:

• st. Latysheva, east of st. Savushkina

With the opening of a new line, the route was also extended:

• “Fish factory refrigerators - ATRZ”

According to the State for this year, the length of a single line is 24 km. The number of cars is 28 pieces (of which 2 are cars of the ZiU-9 model).

1980 year

A new line was built on November 1, and a new line was finally put into operation on December 31:

• st. Nikolai Ostrovsky, from the street 50 years of the Komsomol to the modern Children's Park

With the opening of the new line, the route scheme was approved:

• No. 1 “Stadium - ATRZ” (assigned number)
• No. 2 “Circus - Refrigeration Equipment Plant” (organized on a new line)

1982 year

On December 25, a new line was opened, laid in the Southeast neighborhood:

• Star Street, from the Children's Park to the Kuban st.

With the opening of a new line, the route was extended:

• No. 2 "Circus - Kuban St."

1984 year

February 13 in connection with the reconstruction of roads on the street. Victory built:

• one-sided half-ring on Vokzalnaya pl., from ul. Victory to the street. Henri Barbusse clockwise

With the opening of a new section of the line, the route was extended:

• No. 2 “ Railway station - Kubanskaya St.”

1986 year

On October 5, a speed line was built to Narimanovo Airport:

• Airport highway, from the Tsarev River to the Airport

With the opening of a new line, a route was organized:

• No. 3 “ Railway Station - Airport ”

1987 year

On November 5, a new line was opened, laid in the South-Eastern microdistrict No. 3

• st. Nikolai Ostrovsky, from the Children's Park to the Kutum River

With the opening of a new line, a route was organized:

• No. 4 “Circus - Southeast No. 3”

1988 year

This year, the last trolleybus of the ZIU-5 model was decommissioned.

January 4 extended route:

• No. 4 “ Railway Station - Southeast No. 3”

On December 29, a new automobile bridge was opened across the Volga. A new line was also built along the same bridge:

• st. Henri Barbusse, New bridge, from st. Savushkina to the street Pushkin

With the opening of a new line, the route was extended:

• No. 3 “Solyanka - Airport ”

U-turn at the final Solyanka is carried out directly under the bridge during the descent to ul. Pushkin.

1997 November 1, as an experiment, which was successful, the route was extended:

• No. 2 "Refrigerators - Kuban St."

2006 In the spring of 2006, the municipal transport enterprises were corporatized, as a result of which the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “TTU” was transformed into Astrakhanelektropassazhirtrans LLC (at the same time, PATP No. 4 on Energeticheskaya Street was transformed into Astrakhanpassassazhirtrans OJSC). The new company purchased on lease 8 trolleybuses of the VZTM-5284 series and 4 VZTM-5280, sold in Tula in 2008. In the summer of that year, in connection with the gradual elimination of the tram traffic, the city administration voiced various utopian plans for the further development of the trolleybus system.

On October 9, due to the closure of the control room at the Zheleznodorozhny Railway Station ring, the route was extended:

• No. 4 “Refrigerators - Southeast No. 3”

February 19, 2007 , in connection with the start of construction across the Bolda River, the line was closed and dismantled:

• - st. Latysheva, east of st. Savushkina

With the closure of the line reduced routes:

• No. 1 "Stadium - ATRZ"
• No. 2 “Stadium - Kuban St.”
• No. 4 “Stadium - Southeast No. 3”

From May 24, 2007, the trolleybus fleet switched to servicing bus routes No. 4T and 3T (from July 25, 2007), opened in connection with the liquidation of the last two tram routes. These routes were served by buses of the PAZ-32052 series; route stencils were made in the same style with trolleybus routes. Since 2009, the servicing of these routes was transferred to Astrakhan Passenger Transport, which served them until its bankruptcy in 2016.

2008 year

• In the same year, as a result of the bankruptcy of Astrakhanelektropassazhirtransa, the trolleybus returned to the direct municipal subordination. Official black-and-white route diagrams first appear in trolleybuses.

From November 2008 to November 2009, the trolleybus route No. 3 was interrupted; since November 2009, he was appointed as a seasonal one. To compensate for the cancellation of the route, ATP MU introduced special routes without a number for transporting passengers on the New Bridge (on a driver’s glass, a sheet of A4 paper with the inscription “Beach” was put on the number 2 or 4); while there was no traffic on the Tsarev River - Astrakhan Airport section, the passenger bus No. 18 was temporarily extended. The schedule of these flights was posted on each of the trolleybuses.

2010 year

• Starting from April 1, summer route (which worked as such until the summer of 2017) No. 1A Stadium - Airport was opened on summer seasons and on holidays.
• The decision of October 14, 2010 approved a plan for reforming the route network of urban transport, where specific plans for the construction of a trolleybus line along Kakhovsky Street, Sofia Perovskaya to the Ring "International Warriors Boulevard" were officially approved. According to the line planned for the construction, it was supposed to launch route No. 5, designed to replace the minibus No. 28c.

2011

• Route No. 4 “Central Stadium - Boulevard of Warriors-Internationalists” was canceled (due to unprofitability).

year 2013

• For the first time it became known about the plans of the city authorities to close the trolleybus movement in Astrakhan ^[2] .

June 2016

• Route No. 1A has been transformed, now it has become route No. 1 and follows to the Airport.
• The colors on the stencils were eliminated, one-color white plates began to be installed indicating the route and stops.

2017, August 11th August, the release of the line was 4 trolleybuses. The company is on the verge of complete liquidation. From August 15, the trolleybus system will probably cease to exist, and will go down in history as the tram left (July 25, 2007). There will no longer be electric vehicles in the city.

2017, August 17 Routes 1 and 1a are almost eliminated (trolleybus service will only be in the morning and evening). For the rest of the time, the city will have the only route No. 2. To overcome the crisis, the company plans to increase the fare from 10 to 15 rubles (this is the only way out of the crisis of the enterprise).

2017, October 30 The last day of trolleybus operation.

2017, November 1, Astrakhan City Hall officially announced the closure of the trolleybus system. The trolleybus has served the townspeople 50 years since its opening on November 5, 1967. Now the city has completely lost electric urban transport ^[3] . Shortly before the closure of trolleybus traffic, entries were made in the official register of NOT routes of Astrakhan that legitimized the possible replacement of trolleybus routes No. 1 and 2 with bus No. 1A and 2A, however, due to the absence of carrier companies wishing to participate in the transportation auction, the project replacing trolley buses with buses remained unrealized. Also in September 2017, proposals to launch electric buses along trolleybus routes were considered ^[4] . Within a few months after the traffic was closed, pickets and rallies in defense of electric vehicles were held in the city ^[5] .

2018 On June 14, the dismantling of trolleybus lines began. In the beginning, plots from Planet Park to Southeast-3, one of the sides along Zvezdnaya Street, were removed, and by August 15 the line on the New Bridge was also removed. In the fall of 2018, the dismantling of the line on Nikolay Ostrovsky Street, and partly the central section (on Admiralteyskaya and Sverdlova Streets) was completed.

In total, over the entire period of the system’s existence, 5 routes were operated, as well as special flights without a route number from the southeastern part of the system in the direction of the New Bridge.

From 1967 to 2006, small rectangular plates with the route number (or the “To Park” flight indication) fastened in the driver's cab and on the hinged brackets at the back, as well as large routing stencils on hinged brackets on the starboard side of the trolley bus, were used as routing stencils. It is noteworthy that most of the side boards (except route No. 2 and part of the stencils of route No. 1) (until 2007) contained only information about the final points of the route. Since the arrival of the VZTM-5284 and LIAZ-5280 trolleybuses in 2006-2009, these stencils began to be replaced by new design plates on which the number of each route (except for 1a and special flights without a route number) received its color background: first, stencils of a new type appeared on new trolleybuses, and by 2010 the old routing boards on trolleybuses of the ZiU-682 family were completely out of use.

Since the opening, the ZiU-5 models have been used. The last one was decommissioned in 1988 .

The maximum daily output per line in July 2010 was 36 trolleybuses. By May 2011, it was reduced to 24 trolleybuses, and by 2015 - to 12-13 trolleybuses, and in August 2017 - 4 trolleybuses, on October 30, 2017 - 7 trolleybuses.

• Specialists of the Astrakhan trolleybus system helped in organizing the Vladikavkaz trolleybus : trolleybus drivers from Vladikavkaz had practice here; The trolleybus in Vladikavkaz was launched on February 1, 1977 ^[6] .

• Unofficial site of the Astrakhan trolleybus, created in June 2010 by enthusiasts and employees of MU TTP
• The forum "Astrakhan FOR TROLLEYBUS" is open on 02/04/2011 for everyone to express their opinion on the latest of environmentally friendly means of transport in Astrakhan
• Route network from 10/14/2010 and perspective
• Astrakhan trolley bus
• Scheme of trolleybus routes in Astrakhan. GIF format.
• Astrakhan trolleybus in 2007 (photos)