Martin Antonenko
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The First Tram in the Russian Empire ...
After having to be content with horse-drawn trams for a long time ...
... and had experimented more or less successfully with steam powered cars ...
... on May 21, 1892, the first electrically operated tram in the Russian Empire went into operation.
It doesn’t drive in the capital Saint Petersburg or in the metropolis Moscow!
Rather, it is line 1 at Kiev!
The route is about a kilometer long ...
... and the ticket (at that time still called "subscription") costs 5 Kopecks ....:
A monument was erected in Kiev in 1992, commemorating the first tram in the Russian Empire ...:
A few years later, the electrical marvel was also established in Moscow (1899) ...
In Sankt Peterburg there is a line from 1894, which, however - provisionally - only runs in winter!
It's route is - including the overhead line! - rebuilt every winter over the frozen Neva - and dismantled again when the ice no longer carries ...:
Regular and permanent traffic with electric trams on fixed lines does not start in Saint Petersburg until much later - in September 1907 - here the inauguration ...:
In the Asian part of Russia it will take until October 9, 1912 for the first "Elektritschka" (as the Russians say) to run at Vladivostok.
After having to be content with horse-drawn trams for a long time ...
... and had experimented more or less successfully with steam powered cars ...
... on May 21, 1892, the first electrically operated tram in the Russian Empire went into operation.
It doesn’t drive in the capital Saint Petersburg or in the metropolis Moscow!
Rather, it is line 1 at Kiev!
The route is about a kilometer long ...
... and the ticket (at that time still called "subscription") costs 5 Kopecks ....:
A monument was erected in Kiev in 1992, commemorating the first tram in the Russian Empire ...:
A few years later, the electrical marvel was also established in Moscow (1899) ...
In Sankt Peterburg there is a line from 1894, which, however - provisionally - only runs in winter!
It's route is - including the overhead line! - rebuilt every winter over the frozen Neva - and dismantled again when the ice no longer carries ...:
Regular and permanent traffic with electric trams on fixed lines does not start in Saint Petersburg until much later - in September 1907 - here the inauguration ...:
In the Asian part of Russia it will take until October 9, 1912 for the first "Elektritschka" (as the Russians say) to run at Vladivostok.
