List of trolleybus systems in Ukraine

This is a list of trolleybus systems in Ukraine by oblast. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.

Cherkasy Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Cherkasy	9 November 1965

Chernihiv Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Chernihiv	4 November 1964

Chernivtsi Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Chernivtsi	1 February 1939

Crimea

Location	Date (From)	Notes
Alushta	20 August 1993	See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta.
Kerch	18 September 2004
Simferopol	7 October 1959
Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta	6 November 1959	Simferopol – Alushta opened 6 November 1959. Alushta – Yalta opened July 1961. World's longest trolleybus line, 86.7 km (53.7 mi). See Crimean Trolleybus.
Yalta	1 May 1961	See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk)	7 November 1947
	Kryvyi Rih	21 December 1957

Donetsk Oblast

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Bakhmut (formerly known as Artemivsk)	29 April 1968		City was renamed from Artemivsk in 2016.
Dobropillia	23 August 1968	15 March 2011
Donetsk	3 January 1940
Dzerzhynsk (now known as Toretsk)	26 April 1985	15 May 2007	City was named Dzerzhynsk during the entire period of trolleybus operation, but was renamed Toretsk in 2016.
Horlivka	6 November 1974
Khartsyzk	4 February 1982
Kramatorsk	18 November 1971
Makiivka	13 November 1969		Trolleybus line from Donetsk extended to Makiivka, 7 November 1960. (Makiivka system opened 13 November 1969.)
Mariupol	21 April 1970
Sloviansk	19 March 1977
Vuhlehirsk	8 July 1982

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ivano-Frankivsk	31 December 1983

Kharkiv Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Kharkiv	5 May 1939

Kherson Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Kherson	16 June 1960

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Khmelnytskyi	25 December 1970

Kirovohrad Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovohrad)	4 November 1967

Kiev

Trolleybuses in Kiev

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Kiev	5 November 1935

Kiev Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bila Tserkva	23 June 1980

Luhansk Oblast

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Alchevsk	26 September 1954		Trolleybus line Alchevsk — Perevalsk was working in period 1962 — 2008
Antratsyt	27 September 1987
Krasnodon/Sorokyne	30 December 1987
Luhansk	25 January 1962
Lysychansk	7 March 1972
Sieverodonetsk	1 January 1979
Stakhanov/Kadiyivka	1 March 1970	31 August 2011	Operation suspended September 2008 - 15 July 2010.

Lviv Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Lviv	27 November 1952

Mykolaiv Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Mykolaiv	29 October 1967

Odessa Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Odessa	5 November 1945		Originally built in 1941, and trolley coaches were bought just before World War II started. But due to war hardships, the system was not able to be opened until 1945.

Poltava Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Kremenchuk	6 November 1966
	Poltava	14 September 1962

Rivne Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Rivne	27 December 1974

Sevastopol

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Sevastopol	6 November 1950

Sumy Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Sumy	25 August 1967

Ternopil Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ternopil	24 December 1975

Vinnytsia Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Vinnytsia	20 February 1964

Volyn Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Lutsk	8 April 1972

Zaporizhia Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Zaporizhia	22 December 1949

Zhytomyr Oblast

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Zhytomyr	1 May 1962

Sources

Books and periodicals

Murray, Alan. 2000. "World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia" (ISBN 0-904235-18-1). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks.
Peschkes, Robert. 1987. "World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus and Rapid Transit Systems, Part Two: Asia & USSR /Africa/Australia" (ISBN 0-948619-00-7). London: Rapid Transit Publications.
"Straßenbahnatlas ehem. Sowjetunion / Tramway Atlas of the former USSR" (ISBN 3-926524-15-4). 1996. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn, in conjunction with Light Rail Transit Association, London.
Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.

External links

Media related to Trolleybuses in Ukraine at Wikimedia Commons

Urban public transport networks and systems in Ukraine

Metros	Dnipro Donetsk (cancelled) Kharkiv Kiev Kryvyi Rih (metrotram) Lviv (cancelled) Odessa (projected) Zaporizhia (projected)

Trams	Avdiivka Berdychiv Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Chernivtsi Dnipro Donetsk Druzhkivka Horlivka Kadiyivka Kamyanske Kerch Kharkiv Kiev Konotop Kostiantynivka Kramatorsk Kropyvnytskyi Kryvyi Rih Luhansk Lviv Makiivka Mariupol Molochne Mykolaiv Nizhyn Odessa Poltava Sevastopol Simferopol Sviatohirsk Sloviansk Vinnytsia Yenakiieve Yevpatoria Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

Trolleybuses	Alchevsk Antratsyt Bila Tserkva Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipro Donetsk Horlivka Ivano-Frankivsk Kerch Kiev Kharkiv Khartsyzk Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kramatorsk Kropyvnytskyi Kremenchuk Kryvyi Rih Luhansk Lutsk Lviv Lysychansk Makiivka Mariupol Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sevastopol Severodonetsk Simferopol–Alushta–Yalta Sloviansk Sorokyne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Vuhlehirsk Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

Misсellaneous	Kiev Funicular Kiev Light Rail Odessa Funicular

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List of trolleybus systems in Ukraine

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Sources

Books and periodicals

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