The Mingachevir trolleybus system was a system of
trolleybus
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es forming part of the
public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typical ...
arrangements in
Mingachevir
Mingachevir ( az, Mingəçevir ) is the fourth-largest city in Azerbaijan with a population of about 106,000. It's often called the "city of lights" because of its hydroelectric power station on the Kur River, which divides the city down the mid ...
, the
fourth most populous city in
Azerbaijan
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, for about 15 years at the turn of the 21st century.
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History
The system was opened on 15 April 1989. At its height, it consisted of three lines. The only remaining line was closed on 31 March 2006.[
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Services
The three lines operating at the height of the system were as follows:
# Садоводческое хозяйство (Horticultural Industry) — посёлок АзГРЭС (AzGRÈS)
# Варвары (Barbarians) — Депо (Depot) — Варвары (Barbarians)
# Дормаш (Dormash) — Депо (Depot)
Fleet
The Mingachevir trolleybus fleet comprised 17 vehicles of type ZiU-9
ZiU-9, or ZIU-9 (Cyrillic: ЗиУ-9) is a Soviet (and later Russian) trolleybus. Other names for the ZiU-9 are ZiU-682 and HTI-682 (Cyrillic: ЗиУ-682 and ХТИ-682). The ZiU acronym stands for ''Zavod imeni Uritskogo'', which is a plant nam ...
.[ , part of the fleet was still in the depot.
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See also
* History of Mingachevir
*List of trolleybus systems
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*Trolleybuses in former Soviet Union countries
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
References
External links
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Mingachevir
Mingachevir ( az, Mingəçevir ) is the fourth-largest city in Azerbaijan with a population of about 106,000. It's often called the "city of lights" because of its hydroelectric power station on the Kur River, which divides the city down the mid ...
Mingachevir
Mingachevir
Mingachevir ( az, Mingəçevir ) is the fourth-largest city in Azerbaijan with a population of about 106,000. It's often called the "city of lights" because of its hydroelectric power station on the Kur River, which divides the city down the mid ...