Public transport in Russian cities

In Volgograd, the timing of the reconstruction of the high-speed tram has been disrupted. The head of Volgograd, Vitaly Likhachev, promised to launch trams in the spring. But even in the middle of summer, they are still not there. The administration of Volgograd refers that only a lack of federal money prevents them from completing work on the reconstruction of the high-speed tram line in the northern part of the city.

Production of a tram for Taganrog at the UKVZ

Some facts and news about UKVZ:

Currently, the company employs 2.6 thousand people in all departments, including defense (in the closed part of the plant, where journalists are not allowed, they produce military products). The tram production employs 450 people. The average salary at work is 26 thousand rubles, by the end of the year this figure should be raised to 28 thousand rubles. And two years ago, in 2019, people here received 16 thousand rubles.



Currently, the plant is provided with contracts for the supply of trams for Taganrog, Moscow and Chelyabinsk. They are also developing a model for Baikonur. 30 units will be delivered to Chelyabinsk by the end of the year, and 10 to Taganrog. In the near future, trams will also go to the capital. By the end of the year, UKVZ will produce 40 tram cars for Moscow.

Had the pleasure of riding on a Vityaz-M yesterday. It's a pretty new model, one of a range made by PK Transportnye Sistemy at the TVZ facilities in Tver







Until now I've only had experience with the sort of older trams you can see at the start of the vid. They're shaky, vibration-ridden and extremely noisy affairs, but I've always assumed that this is at least partially because of the the tram tracks themselves and their lack of upkeep

Well not so. I rode on both a Vityaz-M and an older model on the same line, and it amazed me just how great the difference was, and it all being down to the trams themselves. The Vityaz-M in this regard, was very quiet, had a minimum of vibration, did not shake all over the place, and works up quite a speed between stops, a good deal more than the older trams. Combined with its general roominess and length, it gives you the impression of being a sort of street-level train.

A new electric commuter railcar is under development in Russia, designed to operate between cities and adjacent suburbs and small towns

The EP4DA consists of 2 carriages, and can run at a speed of up to 75 mph

flamming_python wrote:A new electric commuter railcar is under development in Russia, designed to operate between cities and adjacent suburbs and small towns

The EP4DA consists of 2 carriages, and can run at a speed of up to 75 mph

Looks awesome

20 used Moscow trams are expected in Kursk until November. The contest will last until August 25. The cars must be brought to Kursk by November 5. The contract price is 1 million 795 thousand rubles. Presumably, these will be trams of the MTTCh model: modernized Tatra T3 trams, which in 2004-2009 were modernized at the Moscow Tram Repair Plant with the installation of TV-Progress electrical equipment manufactured by the Czech Cegelec company. 

Reconstruction of tram lines continues in Taganrog

After the completion of the tram reconstruction, Taganrog plans to revive trolleybus routes in 2023-2024.

Information from the banner:

Stage 1 – September 2021
10.63 km length of tracks
10 units of rolling stock
24 tram stops
3.5 million passengers a year

Stage 2 – September 2022
32.32 km length of tracks
50 units of rolling stock
76 tram stops
76 million passengers per year
1 reconstruction of the depot

Stage 3 – 2023-2024 (reanimation of trolleybus traffic)
68 km wires for trolleybuses length 
56 units of trolleybuses
17 million passengers per year
1 reconstruction of the depot

The Novatorskaya (Eng: Innovative) metro station under construction in Moscow

Construction of an intercity tram line between Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Pyshma

Another interesting development of late are Russian electric vessels, designed for city transport & recreation

For example the Ecovolt catamaran, on display in St. Petersburg since this year

It's the first one of 5 planned; they'll be scheduled to transport passengers from St. Petersburg city to the Peterhof complex just south-west of the city.

These vessels have no emissions, are very quiet and can travel up to 140 km between charges. They work up a maximum speed of just under 8 knots.






Meanwhile in Moscow there's a mock-up of an electric water bus currently parked at one of the piers, a vessel that's scheduled to be introduced next year as a means of city transport

It has an autonomous range of 105 km






There are some other promising designs in the pipeline as well, shown earlier this year at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021

For example the Ecobus

Ecocruiser

And Ecovolt 3.0


The main necessity when it comes to all such vessels, are the need for pier-side charging points; which are only available in a few places right now but it should be a fairly trivial matter.

New trams in the depot of Chelyabinsk. At the moment, 8 out of 30 ordered trams have been delivered

By the end of October 2021, Novokuznetsk will receive the first batch of electric transport of 20 new trams and 19 trolleybuses. This is the largest renovation of electric transport in the city in the last 20 years.

In Yevpatoria, the first tram of the 71-411-03 model was released for running-in. This is a special version of the tram 71-411, designed for routes that do not have a U-turn ring. 

9 new trolleybuses with a reserve of autonomous running took to the streets of Ufa. Trams are called Gorozhanin (Eng: City dweller) . They are produced by the Ufa Tram and Trolleybus Plant (UTTZ) together with the Belarusian company MAZ. UTTZ buys MAZ bus bodies as the basis for its trolleybuses. 

Construction of the Pykhtino metro station in New Moscow. There are only 50 km of tunnels left to stretch to the border with the Kaluga Region. The Moscow metro is spreading beyond the borders of Moscow and the Moscow region, hehe

New NEFAZ (KAMAZ) buses for Yekaterinburg

Moscow will fully switch to electric buses starting from 2025.

Moscow will only use electric buses on city routes from 2025. This was announced in an interview with RBC-TV by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov, noting that the Russian capital is the leader in Europe in terms of the number of electric buses.

Recall that the first electric buses took to the streets of Moscow in the fall of 2018. Under the terms of the contracts, domestic producers GAZ and KAMAZ delivered 600 electric buses to the capital in 2018-2021. As Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said earlier, the plans for the coming years include increasing the fleet of electric buses to 2,200 cars, which will make up almost a third of the capital's ground transport fleet.

As previously reported by AUTOSTAT, in May 2021, KAMAZ signed another, fourth contract for the supply of electric buses to the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans. Under the terms of the contract, KAMAZ will supply a total of 350 KAMAZ-6282 electric buses to Moscow. It is worth noting that under the fourth contract, KAMAZ electric buses assembled directly in the Russian capital will be delivered for the first time.

Recall that at the end of April 2021, KAMAZ opened an assembly production of electric buses on the basis of the Sokolniki car repair and Construction Plant. The established production facilities are designed to assemble up to 500 electric buses per year. At the second stage of production development, it is planned to reconstruct another SVARZ workshop with an area of 3000 square meters by 2023, which will allow an additional 200 electric buses to be produced per year. 100 high-tech jobs have been created at the production site, and their number will double by 2023. Investments in the project totaled 325 million rubles.

As noted, the opening of the assembly production of KAMAZ electric buses at the Sokolnicheskiy Car Repair and Construction Plant is part of a large program to replace the Moscow bus fleet. The former vehicles in the capital will be replaced with electric buses: the city authorities have practically stopped purchasing diesel-powered buses.

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Russian_Patriot_ wrote:Construction of the Pykhtino metro station in New Moscow. There are only 50 km of tunnels left to stretch to the border with the Kaluga Region. The Moscow metro is spreading beyond the borders of Moscow and the Moscow region, hehe

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This is a good thing. It amounts to underground commuter rail going to downtown. It reduces the load on the road network and the
parking space.

New trams in Barnaul will appear with the help of the regional government. 

During the visit to the Altai Territory of the heads of one of the largest domestic manufacturers of electric vehicles – the company Uraltransmash, General Director Dmitry Semizorov and his deputy Andrey Makarov met with the head of the city of Barnaul Vyacheslav Frank. They discussed prospects for cooperation in purchasing new trams for the regional capital.

In addition, a working meeting was held on this issue in the city administration with the participation of First Deputy Mayor Anatoly Voronkov, representatives of branch regional departments: the Ministry of Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport and relevant committees of the city of Barnaul.

"First of all, it is necessary to study the available offers on the market of electric vehicle manufacturers, understand its cost, determine financial models for purchasing equipment and work out a number of other issues related to the task at hand. To do this, it is very important to build a dialogue with tram manufacturers" – the minister said.

At the presentation of Uraltransmash products, Dmitry Semizorov, General Director of the company, spoke in detail about the technical characteristics and capabilities of each type of tram produced at the enterprise, and about new technologies that are used in their construction. They also discussed the formats of cooperation in terms of maintenance of equipment, training of specialists and other issues.

First Deputy Mayor Anatoly Voronkov stressed that the relevant specialists of the city administration, together with the regional relevant departments, will calculate the cost of purchasing new rolling stock and work out possible financing options.

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Krasnoyarsk will receive 75 new trams and trolleybuses. 

In Krasnoyarsk, a part of public transport will be updated as part of a national project. This was stated by the head of the city Sergey Eremin at a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation.

Sergey Vasilyevich said that as part of the Clean Air project of the Ecology national project, Krasnoyarsk will receive 75 new trolleybuses (50) and trams (25). Also, to improve the environment in the city this year, 20 low-efficiency boiler houses will stop working.

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The first 60 KAMAZ electric buses have been assembled in the capital of Russia. The Sokolniki Car Repair and Construction Plant has already handed them over to Mosgortrans. 

According to the plans, a total of 750 KAMAZ electric buses will transport Moscow passengers by January 2022.

The production of KAMAZ electric buses in Moscow, in Sokolniki, is the most environmentally friendly in Russia. The fact is that all operations in the shop are performed with zero emissions. In addition to environmental friendliness, the production of electric buses directly in the capital allows you to reduce the delivery time, assembly and maintenance of electric vehicles, as well as save on logistics.

I.Metshin: "In a short time, a quarter of tram tracks will be restored to proper condition".

In Kazan, it is planned to put 30 km of tram tracks in order, replace about 3 thousand worn sleepers and install 71 temperature compensators. Since the beginning of summer, 12.5 km of tram tracks have already been repaired. Due to this, the number of delays and downtime of trams decreased by 49%, and the number of accidents – by 8% compared to the same period in 2019. According to the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, this is an important work that affects the quality of transport services for citizens and guests of the capital of Tatarstan.

"In a short time, a quarter of the tram tracks will be restored to proper condition. The company does this at its own expense. This is important for improving the quality of service and passenger safety, and the first good results have already been achieved" – the mayor said on business Monday at the city's Executive Committee.

"The quality of public transport is one of the key factors that directly affects how the quality of life in the city is assessed" – I.Metshin is sure. – "Of course, people expect us to provide safe and comfortable transport services, we strive for this and have been systematically working on this for a long time."

Since June, more than 1,250 sleepers have been replaced and 22 thermal expansion joints installed. To date, work has been completed on lining and straightening tracks on the sections along the street.Technical – from Vakhitov Square to Boriskovo loop with a length of 4.5 km in both directions, along Belomorskaya Street - from Khimicheskaya Street to Tram Street with a length of 8 km in both directions. Now works are being carried out on the sections from the village of Lumumba to the street.Gabisheva (8 km in both directions) from Arbuzova Street to Sunny City (9 km in both directions).

Last weekend, specialists were engaged in moving tram tracks to carry out work on widening the roadway on Said-Galeyev Street in order to improve the traffic situation on this section. In this regard, the tram route No. 5a from the railway station to Glazunov Street was temporarily reduced. Similar works are planned from 23:00 on August 18 to 4:00 on August 20 on the same section, but already on route number 5 in the opposite direction, said Aidar Abdulkhakov.

Taking advantage of the decrease in passenger traffic during the summer period, the company conducted a full audit of the technical condition of trams, trolleybuses and electric trains of the metro, and tram cars are being repaired. "The requirements for the release of rolling stock on the line have been increased, the staff of the rolling stock service has been increased. This service conducts round-the-clock multi-stage monitoring of the quality and completeness of installed spare parts for rolling stock and for their compliance with standards" – A.Abdulkhakov said.

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