Khimki trolleybus (') is a trolleybus system in
Khimki
Khimki ( rus, Химки, p=ˈxʲimkʲɪ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, 18.25 kilometres northwest of central Moscow, and immediately beyond the Moscow city boundary.
History Origins and formation
Khimki was initially a railway station tha ...
,
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...
. Opened on
24 April
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
*1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ma ...
of
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
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. It is operated by Municipal Unitary Enterprise "Khimkielektrotrans" ().
History
First trolleybus route was open in trial mode at September 20, 1996 with 1 car. The regular operation started on April, 24 of 1997 with 5 cars in
peak hours and 1 car in other time on the route.
On September 22, 2001 the first interregion route "2" started operation between Druzhbi street and metro station "
Planernaya".
January 1, 2005 route "2" changed its number to "22" because in
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...
all interregion routes should have numbers starting from 20, but, some months later, the route number was changed to "202", because in Moscow, another route "22" existed from 16 Parkovaya street to
Komsomolskaya Square
Komsomolskaya Square (russian: Комсомо́льская пло́щадь), known as Kalanchyovskaya (russian: Каланчёвская площадь) before 1932, is a square in Moscow, with a blend of revivalist Tsarist and Stalinist ...
.
On September 7, 2006, route 1 was extended to
"Rodina" Stadium.
The most recent extension of the system happened on September 2, 2009, when the third route (203) started operation from "Rodina" Stadium to metro station "
Planernaya".
A new trolleybus line, No.17, was planned to be launched on 1 January 2016, however, it has yet to enter operation.
From August 25, 2020 until 4 September 2020, routes 202 and 203 were the only trolleybus routes in
Moscow because of the closure of the
Moscow trolleybus.
In 2020 and 2021, 17 low floor trolleybuses were transferred from Moscow to Khimki due to the closure of the Moscow trolleybus system.
Routes
There are currently three routes in operation:
* Route 1 - Druzhbi street -
"Rodina" stadium
* Route 202 - Druzhbi street -
Planernaya station
* Route 203 "Rodina" stadium - Planernaya station
As routes 202 and 203 run into Moscow city, parts of it are controlled by the Moscow city government. This has led to disagreements in locations of stops and resulted in inconveniences in transferring from the
Moscow Metro to either of the trolleybus lines.
Rolling stock
The rolling stock of Khimki trolleybus consist of 29 cars, most of them are Soviet-Russian trolleybuses
ZiU-682G-016.05 and ZiU-682G-016
0M(23 cars). Another 6 cars were purchased between 2013 and 2018, 4 cars are TrolZa-5265 "Megapolis" and 2 cars are VMZ-5298.01 "Avangard".
The number in ''Italics'' indicates cars that are temporarily out of service.
References
External links
{{Official website, http://himtrol.ru/
Trolleybus transport in Europe