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Kyiv (trolleybus Model)
Kyiv (), previously known as KTB () for Kyivan Trolleybus (), is a Soviet and Ukrainian trolleybus model originally designed by Kyiv Electric Transport Plant. KTB-1/Kyiv-2/Kyiv-4 (1960–1969) In 1950's KZET has been producing only SVARZ' trolleybuses until 1959 while attempting to design their own model. In 1958 constructor V. Seriohin designed a four-axle trolleybus KZET 4T concept but the idea was scrapped. In the beginning of 1960 KZET assembled the first trolleybus designed by themselves. The model was equipped with MAZ-200 truck axis and was called 2T. During the testing the front overhang was proved to be too large, severely overloading the front axis. Due to this defect the serial production never started so the plant began to work on the second prototype. Next month KZET assembled the 2Tu trolleybus that was a shortened version of 2T and used a lot of parts from Moscow's MTB-82. The model turned out more successful than its predecessor and in the Autumn of 1960 the plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |