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Overview

The two sub-networks had a combined total route length of , making the whole network the fourth largest in the world, after the networks in

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. 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 In 1926 the length of track grew to in 1918, there were 475 cars, and in 1926 – 764. Average speed of trams increased from in 1918 to in 1926.

History of the network

The apogee of Moscow's tram network was in the early 1930s, when it served both rings (the

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) and all connecting streets, 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

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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 (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.) 2. Kursky Railway Station – 3rd Vladimirskaya St. 3. Chistye prudy subway station – Chertanovskaya subway station 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 – Vostochnoye Izmaylovo 12. Vostochnoye Izmaylovo – Dubrovka MCC 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 25. Ostankino – Sokolniki subway station 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. Ulitsa Kulakova ( Kulakov St.) – Mikhalkovo 31. Prospekt Marshala Zhukova (Avenue of marshal Zhukov) – Voikovskaya subway station 32. Kursky Railway Station – Partizanskaya subway station 36. Metrogorodok – Novogireyevo 37. Kalanchyovskaya St. – Novogireyevo 38. Cheryomushki – Proezd Entuziastov (Enthusiasts' drive) 39. Chistye prudy subway station – Universitet subway station 43. Ugreshskaya MCC – Sokolniki subway station 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.

References

External links

Mosgortrans – official website
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