Russia

 

Achinsk
Angarsk

Arkhangel'sk
photos
of this beautiful town
opened in 1916, the tramway is in danger of closing due to disrepair.  In November 2002, lines 3 and 4 were closed for repair and have yet to open.

Photos


Astrakhan'
tram
BS page

Barnaul
Biysk

Chelyabinsk
Cherepovets
Cheryomushki

Dzerzhinsk

Ekaterinburg - 7.5 km, 6 station metro since 1990. Each station is built from a mineral indigenous to the Urals.

  • Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) Metropolitan unofficial home page
  • Metasubway Ekaterinburg from SEJS
  • Erevan (Yerewan)
    Type Full Metro
    Stations
    Lines 3
    Length In Subway 3.4 miles
    Length Topside
    Total Length 6.9 miles
    Year Built 1981
    Address Erevan Metropolitan 
    375010 Ploshchad Lenina 
    Dom Pravitelstva 2 
    Erevan
    Links

    Irkutsk
    Ivanovo
    Izhevsk
    BS page

    Kaliningrad
    tram

    photos

    Kazan
    tram and metro

    Construction is in progress on the first phase of a three-line metro network due to open in 2004.
    Kazan metro home page
    BS photos of tram system
    Tramway photos from tramvaj.ru

    Kemerovo tram
    Khabarovsk


    Kolomna

     Kolomna LRT

    Komsomol tram
    Krasnodar tram

    Krasnoyarsk
    Another special case is secret military city, manufacturer of weapon-grade plutonium and satellites, Zheleznogorsk (former Krasnoyarsk-26). The 10-kilometer line of subway (5 kilometers of that are in tunnel) continues there from city's centre to the mining-chemical plant. The standard electric trains operate on the line there.
     
    Krasnotur tram
    Kupan ** commuter rail emus
    * Map of Kupan commuter rail network, courtesy of  SEJS
    Kursk tram
    Lebedyan
    Lipetsk

    Magnitogorsk
    tram

    Moscow

    Murmansk

    nothing

    This from the transport news group:
    Murmansk, Russia, is located 2,000 kilometers north of Moscow and a two-day train ride. While it has never been confirmed, I have heard rumors that there were plans to build a metro there. However, one problem, somebody told me, is that permafrost would have made it very difficult, if not downright dangerous, to do so. A cute urban legend in that area says that late at night in the Oktjabr'skaja district of town, you can hear the escalators leading down to platforms.
     
    Naberezhnye Chelny
    tram
    BS page

    Nizhnekamsk
    tram
    BS page

    Nizhniy Tagil
    tram

    Nizhni Novgorod (Gorki)
    Type Full Metro
    Stations 12
    Lines 2
    Length In Subway
    Length Topside
    Total Length 14.8 miles
    Year Built 1985
    Address
    Links

    Noginsk
    Novokuznetsk
    Novotroitsk
    Novocherkassk


    Novosibirsk
    Siberia's only metro
     
    Type Full Metro; tram
    Stations 10
    Lines 1
    Length In Subway
    Length Topside
    Total Length 8.4 kilometers
    Year Built 1985
    Address
    Links Homepage
    Unofficial fan page
    МетроЭНСК: Unofficial Home Page
    History of the Novosibirsk subway

    (January 2000) Plans in the next five years include completing construction of station Berjozovaja Roshcha and constructing from there a tunnel up to the Gusino-Brodskij residential complex. Metro builders are also planning to build a metro line to the Stanislavskij residential complex on Novosibirsk's left bank. In specialists' opinion, further metro construction is possible only with federal assistance. Thus, city authorities passed a decision to make the metro project the basis of their program, which will be presented in February to the government of the Russian Federation at an all-Russia meeting.
     

    Photo courtesy Alexander Palashin
    Omsk
    Metro

  • Igor Pavlovsky's great page about the elusive Omsk metro. It includes a large(308 KB) system map.

  • Omsk tram unofficial home page

    Orjol/Oryol
    Orsk
    Osinniki

    Perm
    tramway
     
  • Perm tram page
  • Photos from BS

  • Perm metro project from Metropla.net

    Prokop'yevsk
    Pyatigorsk
    Riga - Rumored 12 mile metro
    Here's a bit of info on Riga's trams
    Rostow-na-Donu
     


    Samara (Kyubyshev) - 10.4 mile metro and tram system

  • A map from Pavel's site
  • SEJS updated Samara Metasubway station (in Russian) with new pictures
  • BS photos

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    St. Petersberg
    Subway, LRT, automated LRT (planned)

    I have been told that it is against the law to photograph the subway.

    Update 1998: Here is a new homepage for the St. Petersburg metro, including photographs of stations and rolling stock.

    More photos are on this site and the site home page, all in Russian, is here.

    A plan is now being discussed for an automated elevated LRT. Because the only funding would come from provate investors, and since none have come forward, it is doubtful this system will be constructed.

    "
    Next years a number residential districts of St. Petersburg will get
    at-grade metro, the construction of which should be 60% cheaper than
    that of the underground lines. This decision had been approved on
    Wednesday, March 03 by the meeting of authorities.
    The annual allocation of 3 mlrd of roubles (100 Mio. ?) from the city
    budget for the development of St.Petersburg metro had been agreed as well.
    The constructure of the following new stations have been decided at
    the meeting: "Komendantskiy Prospekt" - 1st quarter of 2005,
    "Parnasskaya" - 2007, the second exit from "Baltiyskaya" station is
    planned for the same year, in 2008 - "Admiralteyskaya" and second
    vestibule of "Sportivnaya" station.
    The section to "Volovskaya" station (the so called Frunzenskiy radius)
    will be ready in 2008 as well.
    Concerning the construction of at-grade sections, the extention of
    Pravoberezhnaya line beyond "Komendantskiy Prospekt" as well as
    at-grade station further on along Frunzenskiy radius are foreseen.

     
    Type Full Metro
    Stations 58
    Lines 4
    Length In Subway
    Length Topside
    Total Length 42 miles
    Year Built
    Address St. Petersburg Metropoliten I.V. Lenina 
    Moskovskit Prospect 28 
    St. Petersburg L13, Russia
    Links A bit on the St. Petersberg metro
    St.Petersburg by subway
    The Traveller's Yellow Pages
    METRO (Subway, Underground)
    Here's a map.
    St. Petersburg Metro Official Home Page
    Home page, all in Russian
    Great map from Maxim Novakov
    Comments

    This was written in a newgroup a;t.misc.urba.transport about the St. Petersburg trams:

    There is really a sharp contrast between the metro service and the overground tram lines. It seems like they're only doing maintenance at the overground tram lines when it's absolutely necessary. I kept looking at some of the tram lines with big gaps and sharp angles, shaked my head and thought: "This line must be an abandoned one - no tram can possible pass here". And then suddenly the tram comes, bumping and shaking. Another time I stood watching a "perfect" tram-line, and wondered why the tram still was shaking and bumping that much. Looking at the tram, I quickly understood why; there was no solid foundation, when the tram came, the lines sunk at least an inch down in the mud.

    High speed tram upgrade project for St. Petersburg
    Tramscape photos, 1985

    Salavat
    Saratov

  • BS Images

  • Shakhty
    Smolensk

    Sochi
    funicular (partly underground)
    353 meter "Funicular of Ordjenikidze Sanatorium"


    unofficial home page

    Taganrog

    Tomsk

    Tula
    photos

    Tver'
    photos

    Ufa

    Article

    Ulan Ude

    Ul'yanovsk
  • BS Images

  • Usol'ye Sibirskoye
    Ustinov (see Izhevsk)
    Ust'-llimsk
    Ust'-Katav
    Vladikavkaz
     
    Vladivostock

    Vladivostock funicular photo


    Volgograd
    LRT
    Image from SEJS
    Official Home Page

    Volzhskiy
    Volchansk

    Voronezh
    tram

    photos

    Yaroslavl'
    Zlatoust

    A page on Monorails In Russia (in Russian)
    Streetcars in Russia Photogallery from BS
    Subway fan page from Russia
    Subway rolling stock in the FSU
    Russian Railway Ring


    (Russian) Railway Ring Member