(Russian Federation )VOLGOGRAD

Volgograd
The so-called Volgograd Skorostnoy Tramvaj, as well as Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine) Metrotram, has been planned in USSR during years '70s with the aim to develope an efficient rapid urban mass transport system to be applied in other towns responding better than traditional trams to the needs of desplacements in the city centers. Volgograd (previously named Stalingrad), manteins a traditional tram network (more than 200 km long, artculated in 3 sub-networks: northern, central, southern) which has been integrated by Skorostnoy Tramvaj LRT line (connecting northern and central tram nets). Skorostnoy Tramvaj shares a northern section with one of the tram lines (from Traktorozavod to Stadion Monolit) and goes on underground from just south of the stadium emerging north of Pionerskaya stop, before joining PI. Chekistov.A southern underground extension (4,2 km from Pionerskaya to Yelshanka) opened on December 2011.

CHRONOLOGY
05-11-1984	VGTZ-Pl. Chekistov
01-12-2011	Pionerskaya - Yelshanka

Country	Russian Federation
Line	Skorostnoy Tramvaj
Inhabitants	City 1.010.000, District --
Date opening	1984
Future development:	4.2 km southern extension (under construction)
Length (km)	17
Track sections	7.7 km underground (5 stops)
Stops	22, average distange m 750
Platforms	central (underground stops)
Platform doors	no
General characteristics	--
n. of vehicles	--
n. of cars per vehicle	T3:1-2; KT8D5: 3
Type	steel wheels
Vehicle dimensions (m)	length T3: 14 (each car), KT8D5: 30.3; width 2.50
Vehicle capacity (pax)	T3: 95 (32 seated); KT8D5: 226 (50 seated)
Frequency	3'/25'
Current/Voltage	600 V DC overhead
Type of guide/gauge	1524 mm gauge rails
Speed Km/h	Comm 22.7, Max 65
Accel./Decel. (m/sec2)	--
System capacity	--
Ridership	50 millions pax/year
Total cost	--
Staff	--
System builder	TATRA
Model	T3, KT8D5
NOTE	--