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.
, Ukraine

[Cherkasy Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Cherkasy9 November 1965

[Chernihiv Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Chernihiv4 November 1964

[Chernivtsi Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Chernivtsi1 February 1939

[Autonomous Republic of Crimea]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Alushta20 August 1993See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta.
Kerch18 September 2004
Simferopol7 October 1959
Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta6 November 1959Simferopol – Alushta opened 6 November 1959. Alushta – Yalta opened July 1961. World's longest trolleybus line, 86.7 km. See Crimean Trolleybus.
Yalta1 May 1961See also Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta.

[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Dnipro7 November 1947
Kryvyi Rih21 December 1957

[Donetsk Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Bakhmut 29 April 1968City was renamed from Artemivsk in 2016.
Dobropillia23 August 196815 March 2011
Donetsk3 January 1940
Dzerzhynsk 26 April 198515 May 2007City was named Dzerzhynsk during the entire period of trolleybus operation, but was renamed Toretsk in 2016.
Horlivka6 November 1974
Khartsyzk4 February 1982
Kramatorsk18 November 1971
Makiivka13 November 1969Trolleybus line from Donetsk extended to Makiivka, 7 November 1960.
Mariupol21 April 1970
Sloviansk19 March 1977
Vuhlehirsk8 July 198212 August 2014Closed due to extensive damage sustained during the War in Donbass

[Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Ivano-Frankivsk31 December 1983

[Kharkiv Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Kharkiv5 May 1939

[Kherson Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Kherson16 June 1960

[Khmelnytskyi Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Khmelnytskyi25 December 1970

[Kirovohrad Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Kropyvnytskyi 4 November 1967

[Kiev]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Kiev5 November 1935

[Kiev Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Bila Tserkva23 June 1980

[Luhansk Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Alchevsk26 September 1954Trolleybus line Alchevsk — Perevalsk was working in period 1962 — 2008
Antratsyt27 September 1987
Krasnodon/Sorokyne30 December 1987
Luhansk25 January 1962
Lysychansk7 March 1972
Sieverodonetsk1 January 1979
Stakhanov/Kadiyivka1 March 197031 August 2011Operation suspended September 2008 - 15 July 2010.

[Lviv Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Lviv27 November 1952

[Mykolaiv Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Mykolaiv29 October 1967

[Odessa Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Odessa5 November 1945Originally 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 SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Kremenchuk6 November 1966
Poltava14 September 1962

[Rivne Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Rivne27 December 1974

[Sevastopol]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Sevastopol6 November 1950

[Sumy Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Sumy25 August 1967

[Ternopil Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Ternopil24 December 1975

[Vinnytsia Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Vinnytsia20 February 1964

[Volyn Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Lutsk8 April 1972

[Zaporizhia Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Zaporizhia22 December 1949

[Zhytomyr Oblast]

Name of SystemLocationDate Date Notes
Zhytomyr1 May 1962

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