# Trams in Moscow

The Moscow tramway network, which is divided into two sub-networks, is a key element of the public transport system in Moscow, the capital city of Russia. Opened in 1872, it has been operated since 1958 until 2021 by Mosgortrans, a state-owned company.

## Overview

The two sub-networks had a combined total route length of 181 km (112 mi), making the whole network the fourth largest in the world, after the networks in Melbourne, St. Petersburg and Berlin.
The tram is historically the second type of urban passenger transport in Moscow, the successor of the Konka (horse-driven tram). However, the presence in Moscow by the beginning of the 20th century horse-railways hindered the development of tram lines. For the laying of tram lines, it was necessary first to free the roads from horse tracks. In 1901, the council purchased the first competition of the Belgian joint-stock company. When, in 1903, came a period of redemption horse-drawn railway the second Belgian joint stock company, the Duma is not solved, as, according to N. I. Astrov: "In Russia we have not experienced builders and engineers". In November 1905, immediately after the events of October elected a new mayor Nikolai Guchkov. Its launching coincided with the revolutionary actions of workers of Moscow in November–December 1905. As soon as the life in the town had returned to normal, Nikolai Ivanovich ordered to proceed with the laying of tram tracks. In February 1907, construction finally began on Myasnitskaya Street, Sretenka Street and Lubyanka Street, from the Passion of the monastery Dmitrovka and further on down, to the Sretenka and Myasnitskaya. The first electric tram routes linked the outskirts of the Garden ring with the center of Moscow, and mainly repeated the routes of the konechnye.
18 May 1910 the city council on the proposal of N. I. Guchkov made a decision about carrying out in 1912 in Moscow, the congress of tram companies.
To the 1910 years the dense network of lines was observed in the western part of the centre with the formation of arcs on the Garden and Boulevard rings. In 1918 the total length of tram lines in the city amounted to 323 km (201 mi) In 1926 the length of track grew to 395 km (245 mi) in 1918, there were 475 cars, and in 1926 – 764. Average speed of trams increased from 7 km/h (4 mph) in 1918 to 12 km/h (7 mph) in 1926.

## History of the network

The apogee of Moscow's tram network was in the early 1930s, when it served both rings (the Boulevard and the Garden) and all connecting streets, gas lines were laid and on the outskirts. In 1934, when the tram was the dominant mode of transport, 2.6 million of the city's population of 4 million used the tram every day. More radical changes took place in the 1940s, when trams were replaced by trolleybuses in the western part of the Boulevard Ring and removed from the Kremlin. With the development of the metro in the 1950s some of the lines leading to the suburbs were closed, and the carriage of freight ceased.
In 1958, the tram and trolleybus administration was merged with the passenger transport department to form the Department of Passenger Transport of Moscow (UPTM), which operated all three types of surface public transport: bus, trolleybus and tram.
In the 1960s and 1970s, tram lines were finally eliminated in the western part of the city and from the Garden Ring. However, new lines were laid in areas that were not served by the metro: Medvedkovo, Chertanovo, Perovo and Novogireevo. After the closure of the lines between Nizhnyaya Maslovka and Tikhvinovskaya streets in 1965 and on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya street in 1973, the lines operating from the Krasnaya Presnya tram depot in the north-west of the city was severed from the rest of the network. In the mid-1990s a new wave of line closures started, mainly on major highways near the city centre. In 1995, the company closed the line on Mira Avenue, then at the Nizhnyaya Maslovka due to the construction of the 3rd ring road. For the same reason in the early 2000s, the rails on Begovaya street, near the Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station and on Dvintsev street were removed. In 2004, in connection with forthcoming reconstruction, the Leningradskiy avenue line was closed. In 2008 the lines on Lesnaya street and Volokolamskoe highway closed. Between 1989 and 2004 the length of the lines fell from 460 to 420 km (261 mi) (the high point in the 1940s was 560 km). In 1990 daily ridership was over 800,000, but by the late 1990s this had fallen to about 150,000 passengers. From 30 to 31 August 2013 in the framework of the experimental introduction of night routes of public transport route No. 3 is translated to round-the-clock work, however, as of May 2020, the route now is back to operating from 5:00 to 1:00.
The tram network has been expanded and modernized in recent years: 3 new lines are being built.

## Tram network today

As of 2021, Moscow has introduced open gangway trams beginning with service in the north-west of the city. These trains accommodate 110 passengers and have 18% more seats than those of the previous generation, as well as USB ports and media screens.
In August 2021, Moscow ended operations of the Czech-designed high-floor Tatra T3 trams, which had operated in the city since 1963.

## List of routes

А. Novokonnaya ploschad' (Square) – Chistyye prudy subway station
1. Moskvoretsky Market – Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya (Academic Yangel St.)
3. Chistye prudy subway station – Balaklavsky Prospect (Avenue)
4. Bulvar Rokossovskovo subway station – Kursky Railway Station
6. Sokol subway station – Bratsevo
7. Bulvar Rokossovskovo subway station – Belorussky Rail Terminal
9. Belorussky Rail Terminal – MIIT (only in weekdays)
10. Shchukinskaya subway station – Ulitsa Kulakova (Kulakov St.)
11. Ostankino – 16th Parkovaya St.
12. 16th Parkovaya St. – 2nd ulitsa Mashinostroyeniya (2nd Machinbuilding St.)
13. Kalanchovskaya St. – Metrogorodok
14. Oktyabrskaya subway station – Universitet subway station
15. Sokol subway station – Tallinskaya Str.
16. Novodanilovsky Proezd (Drive) – Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya (Academic Yangel St.)
17. Ostankino – Medvedkovo
20. Kursky Rail Terminal – Krasnokazarmennaya Ploschad' (Square)
21. Tallinskaya St. – Schukinskaya subway station
23. Sokol subway station – Mikhalkovo
24. Kursky Railway Station – Proezd Entuziastov (Enthusiasts' drive)
25. Ostankino – Sokol'nicheskaya Zastava
26. Oktyabrskaya subway station – Universitet subway station (through Cheryomushki)
27. Voikovskaya subway station – Dmitrovskaya subway station
28. Prospekt Marshala Zhukova (Avenue of marshal Zhukov) – Sokol subway station
29. Dmitrovskaya subway station – Mikhalkovo
30. Tallinskaya St. – Mikhalkovo
31. Prospekt Marshala Zhukova (Avenue of marshal Zhukov) – Voikovskaya underground station
34. 16th Parkovaya St. – Semyonovskaya subway station
36. Metrogorodok – Novogireyevo
37. Kalanchyovskaya St. – Novogireyevo
38. Cheryomushki – 3rd Vladimirskaya St.
39. Chistye prudy subway station – Universitet subway station
43. Ugreshskaya MCC – 3rd Vladimirskaya St.
45. Novokonnaya ploschad' (Square) - Sokol'nicheskaya Zastava
46. Bulvar Rokossovskovo subway station – Oktyabrskoe tram depot
47. Nagatino – Oktyabrskaya subway station
49. Nagatino – Novodanilovsky Proezd (Drive)
50. Proezd Entuziastov (Enthusiasts' drive) – Novoslobodskaya subway station

## Rolling stock

This table does not include vehicles on short term trials and does not include vehicles that are purely in museum service.
| Tram | Modification | In service since | Out of service since | Number in service | Remarks |
| PC TS 71-931 'Vityaz' | 71-931 'Vityaz-M' | 2016 | | 464 | |
| Pesa Twist | 71-414 Fokstrot | 2014 | | 70 | Built by Uraltransmash |
| UKVZ 71-623 | -02 | 2012 | | 48 | |
| PC TS 71-911EM 'Lyvonok' | 71-911EM | 2021 | | 40 | |
| Tatra T3 | Tatra T3SU | 1963 | | 0 | None in passenger service, only runs as work cars. 17 three door trams, 3 two door trams |
| Tatra T3 | Tatra T3T | 1993 | 2008 | 0 | Upgraded version, all later further upgraded into MTT* |
| Tatra T3 | Tatra T3RF | 1999 | 2002 | 0 | Upgraded version, transferred to Brno |
| Tatra T3 | Tatra-Reis | 1992 | 1999 | 0 | Upgraded version, some transferred to other cities, others further upgraded. |
| Tatra T3 | Tatra KT3R | 2007 | | 0 | Three section tram built from two ends of a T3 with a new middle section, currently out of service |
| Tatra T3 | MTTCh | 2004 | 2021 | 0 | Upgraded by Moscow Tram Repair Plant |
| Tatra T3 | MTTE | 2008 | 2021 | 0 | Upgraded by Moscow Tram Repair Plant |
| Tatra T3 | MTTM | 2003 | 2021 | 0 | Upgraded by Moscow Tram Repair Plant, mostly modernised into MTTA |
| Tatra T3 | MTTA | 2003 | 2021 | 0 | Upgraded by Moscow Tram Repair Plant, mostly transferred to other cities. |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-619K | 2000 | | 0 | None currently actually in service including 1 each of museum and service vehicle |
| UKVZ 71-619 | KTMA | 2008 | | 0 | Upgraded by Moscow Tram Repair Plant, none in service |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-619AC | 2007 | 2021 | 0 | Mostly transferred to other cities. |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-619KS | 2002 | 2019 | 0 | |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-621 | 1999 | | | Shortened 71-619 |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-619KT | 2005 | 2017 | 0 | Transferred to other cities. |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-616 | 1996 | | | 71-619 with foreign technology |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-619A-01 | 2009 | 2020 | 0 | Different motors when compared to 71-619A, transferred to other cities |
| UKVZ 71-619 | 71-619A | 2007 | | 0 | |
| PTMZ 71-134 | 71-134A | 2006 | | 0 | 1 museum car. |
| Luhanskteplovoz LT-5 | | 2003 | | 0 | 1 museum car |
| UKVZ 71-608 | 71-608K | 1990 | | 0 | 1 museum car |
| UKVZ 71-608 | 71-608KM | 1994 | | 0 | |
| UKVZ 71-608 | 71-617 | 1996 | | 0 | training car |
| UKVZ 71-608 | 71-608 | 1998 | 2007 | 0 | |
| UTM 71-405 | 71-405-08 | 2007 | | 0 | |
| UKVZ 71-630 | | 2006 | | | |
| Alstom Citadis | 71-801 | 2013 | | 0 | Not in service. |
| Pragoimex Vario LF | | 2009 | | 0 | |
| GS-4 | | 1963 | | | 11 built by Kuibyshevskiy Tram and Trolleybus Repair Plant, 8 built by VARZ |
| BF | | 1927 | | 0 | |
| F* | | 1946 | | 0 | |
| Luhanskteplovoz LT-10 | | 1997 | | 0 | |
| 2-axle motor car | | 1920 | | 0 | built by SVARZ |