Atlas of Urban Electric Transport of the Russian Federation
Group of authors:
- Author of the project — Mikhail Denschik
- Main editors — Mikhail Denschik, Oleg Bodnya
- Editor of the English text — Francis Terry
- Page makeup — 'Design-bureau'
Publication of this book was planned several years ago by the authors and this is our modest contribution to the development of transport history in Russia. We hope that the renewed development of urban electric transport, which appeared tentatively in major cities across the country in recent years, will continue and be reflected in newer editions of this book.
The atlas contains a number of functional sections. The first section is an introductory commentary by the authors, followed by a short history of urban electric transport in Russia.
The main section includes pages with data on urban electric transport systems in particular cities, with short statistics, a list of vehicles types in service, a list of routes and network maps, modern photos, interesting facts and a short historical summary (as appropriate).
The remaining pages of this section show photos of museum exhibits, and at the end there are also photos of service vehicles.
The third section is the reference and information part of the atlas. 20 appendices in the form of tables, diagrams and texts, depict the historical development of urban electric transport in Russia, the distribution of cities and towns with urban electric transport by Russian regions, their presence in different groups according to numbers of inhabitants etc. A special section is devoted to the predecessors of the electric tramway — horse, steam and gasoline tramways, as well as closed and non-municipal electric transport systems. Information on fares, passenger flows and the operating efficiency of tramway and trolleybus systems is summarized. Information on models and sub-models of passenger and service vehicles operating now in Russian cities is presented in another appendix. The summary tables on total metro rolling stock, trams and trolleybuses that are operating in urban electric transport systems, classified by models and sub-models, have also been included into this section.
The authors of the 'Atlas of Urban Electric Transport In the Russian Federation' are indebted to the directors and specialists in electric transport enterprises for their kind help in providing current statistical data. Special thanks are due to the administrations, archives, and to other organisations at federal, regional and municipal level, for providing information and archive data. The special contribution of experts from electric transport enterprises, ethnographers, historians and transport enthusiasts, who provided invaluable assistance, requires separate mention; in particular Yury Maller (New York), Dmitry Merzlov (Moscow), Vadim Rozaliyev (Moscow) and Sergey Tarkhov (Moscow).
The decisive factor in publishing this book was the support of the International Association of Urban Electric Transport Enterprises and especially Lyudmila Kazakova and Vasily Ostryakov.
A more detailed list of acknowledgments is presented in relevant section of this book. Many thanks to all those who spent their time and energy to make this atlas better and more interesting for the reader!