A company with a 90-year history of “Donelektroavtotrans”: we dream to restore all the routes that we had before the war. A Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent was learning about the work of Donetsk public transport. When you are standing at the bus stop, it rains from the sky, either rain, or snow, cars rush past, which do not care for you, who have shaken,
and the city gradually plunges into darkness, at this moment you dream to see only your own eyes – yellow headlights trolley. Drivers of minibuses and taxis in such weather protect their “horses” and there is only hope for him – horny. And as soon as the trolley bus slowly emerges from around the bend, the world immediately becomes dear, kind and understandable. Cozy warm inside, dim light of the ceiling and in my head the song Tsoi about the trolleybus, which goes to the east, though it is not really about transport. Heroic vehicles with unique tickets A special feature of Donetsk military is that late in the evening you can not wait for a minibus, and taxis to remote areas of the city after 21.00 go with great reluctance. Municipal transport is another matter. You can write poems about our trolley buses and trams. After all, Donetsk trolleybuses are incredible.
They differ from their counterparts in the same Russia. Some coupons are worth only ?! For different holidays, with landscapes of Donetsk, humorous and strict – the subject of envy of collectors. Sometimes you can look at the next original ticket design in such a way that you stop and you will pass. And the price for this beauty? 3 rubles! The cost has never been raised in all the years of the Republic.
This time! The ads we have in the transport are also unique, there are definitely no such anywhere. Rides a motley people, different, hurrying somewhere, and no one even ear leads to all these “explosive finds” and “what to do when firing.” But the guests from the Russian Federation are amazed when they hear.
A separate topic is the announcement of a healthy lifestyle. Such care! Well, just like in childhood, the timbre of a man’s voice is so pleasant that, without hesitation, he would have broken the hole and would quit smoking if he smoked, if only he would not be upset. These are two! Another Donetsk trolleybus, and the trams are heroic too. These are three! They took the people while they could from the most dangerous areas, they, like us, came under fire, they also died, sometimes with their drivers.
And, probably, when trolleybuses are asleep at night in the depot, having hung their horns wearily, they continue to dream of Putilovsky Bridge and Stratonautov Street. Their wheels still remember the asphalt there without funnels and tracks of tracks. So every time, going to the Donetsk trolley, I gave myself the word to write about them.
The company “Donelektroavtotrans” – a veteran of Donetsk We meet with the director of the municipal enterprise of the Donetsk administration “Donelektroavtotrans” Yuri Atamanov.
The enterprise itself has experienced more than one war, the collapse of the union, all kinds of crises, and this year it is preparing to celebrate 90 years! A birthday of the enterprise is considered to be June 15, 1928, then the first route connected the station to Stalino and the Sovbolnitsa.
“I am very pleased that your publication is interested in the work of our enterprise,” begins Yuri Dmitrievich’s conversation. – In 1931, the tram economy of the city was merged with other utilities into one trust, which was called “Tramsvet”. From this moment the history of our company began, which currently has a name – Donelektroavtotrans, a municipal enterprise of the Donetsk city administration.
Today it is the largest carrier of passengers in Donetsk. In addition, our types of transport are the most environmentally friendly, because they are powered by electricity and do not harm the environment by harmful emissions. This is very relevant in a densely populated city with lots of mines, factories and plants.
On the balance of KP “Donelektroavtotrans” is in two-wire terms 183 km of trolleybus lines, 117 km of tram lines, 89 km of cable network, 130 km of tram tracks, which require daily maintenance. The rolling stock of the company serves 9 tram, 11 trolleybus and 8 bus routes. The average daily production of rolling stock for the city’s routes is 120 trolleybuses, 85 trams and 24 large capacity buses.
About 22 privileged categories of citizens are transported free of charge. The fare for the remaining passengers is 3 Russian rubles. The company could increase the average daily production of trams and trolley buses, however, there is currently an acute shortage of skilled drivers and workers. In 2014,
in connection with the hostilities, a large part of electric transport drivers and rolling-stock maintenance and service workers quit, which, in turn, affected the reduction of passenger transport output on the city’s routes. Therefore, taking this opportunity, we invite everyone to work in our friendly team. I’d go to the drivers, let them teach me –
An interesting offer! If, say, I want to become a trolley bus driver, How to do it and what awaits me in terms of salary? – I’m curious. – If you have a valid driver’s license with an open category “T” (trolleybus, tram), then you need to contact us at the address: Donetsk, ul. Donetsk, 39. If there is no such certificate, then first you will have to study for 6 months in our training center.
Training is free and lasts no more than 6 months: half of the training period is spent on theory, the rest of the time is given to the practice of driving. Students enrolled in a training center combine with a monthly stipend and a place in a dormitory.
It should be noted that the mandatory requirements for admission are: age from 21 years; the presence of secondary education; lack of medical contraindications to driving vehicles of category “T”.
During the history of the Republic, we have trained more than 80 drivers for electric transport. As for the salary, it is paid stably and, depending on the grade, it reaches 12 thousand rubles. Work of the driver of a trolley bus in shifts, it is possible to perform work at night, on holidays and on weekends.
The stress factor is the responsibility for the safety of passengers in traffic. So, for trolleybus drivers, there is a retirement pension on preferential terms (for men from 55 years old with a work experience of 25 years, including a trolley bus driver on a line not less than 12 years and 6 months, for women from 50 years with an experience of 20 years, including a trolleybus driver on the line for at least 10 years).
In addition, provided additional leave in the amount of 3 calendar days. With the fatigue of the metal here can cope – So, Human resources are understandable, but what about rolling stock? –
Today, the company operates tram cars with an average age of 31 years with a standard operating life of 15 years, and trolleybuses with an average age of 12 years with a standard operating life of 10 years.
Current repairs are being carried out, and every six months work is being carried out to prepare the rolling stock for the autumn-winter and spring-summer period. In terms of the purchase of spare parts, components and assemblies,
difficulties often arise because the main number of urban electric vehicles is the development of Czech and Soviet production of the 60-80s of the previous century. The company is very helped by spare parts that are allocated through humanitarian aid from the Russian Federation.
Thereby, we have the ability to restore the infrastructure of trolleybus and tram routes, damaged as a result of shelling or worn out due to long service life. – And the routes are all restored? – As of today, all 9 tram routes function in the city, on which tram cars run daily.
As you know, in 2016, the specialists of the CP “Donelektroavtotrans” restored the work of the tram route number 1 “DMZ – Railway Station”, the contact network and the rail track of which received significant damage during the conduct of hostilities. Unfortunately, I can not say the same about trolleybus routes.
In 2016, our specialists restored the contact network and operation of trolleybus routes No. 5, “Panfilova Ave. – Kuprin St.”, No. 21, “ul. Puhova – Broad Microdistrict “, which were forced to cease to exist in 2014-2015. Also, it was worthwhile to restore the contact network of the trolleybus route No. 10 “Winter Kholodokombinat” –
Oktyabrsky Mine Mine Administration to Partizansky Avenue. However, we understood that people live there, for whom it is vital, and since November 2015, trolley buses of route 10 have been going to the stopping point “Partizansky Avenue”.
Alas, the opportunity to restore route No. 10 to the final stop point of the Oktyabrsky Rudnik Mine Management Department and route No. 18 “University – Novorossiysk Village” is currently absent, as the contact network is completely destroyed in certain stretches of routes in the northern part of the city, transport infrastructure
(for example, the Putilov Bridge is destroyed). Besides, they pass practically along the front line, close to the line of demarcation.
Time machines at the tram depot Yuri Dmitrievich offers an excursion to the Donetsk wagon depot to get acquainted with retro trams. They stand in the tram depot number 3 and are quite ready to carry people. One of them is younger –1955 of the year of release; it was manufactured at the Riga Carriage Works. Inside the tram is a kind of museum –
an exposition of photos of Donetsk trams in different years, windows can be raised with the help of special tools. In the driver’s cabin, the chassis, reverse, brake, and the signal was airborne and supplied with a special device that the driver pressed with his feet.
The ancestor of this tram is right there in the depot – the same car opened traffic in Donetsk back in 1928. Seems to cross his threshold and immediately enter another era, where women were dragged into corsets, and the men walked with a cane. This time machine! This is a two-axle tram, in contrast to modern – four-axle.
Therefore, because of its miniature, it seems to be quite a toy. Its interior is lined with wood, the seats are also made of wood – then everything was made of the available materials and the wood still belonged to those.
The cab is decorated with wrought lanterns, but there are no glasses at all! The only windshield in the cab appeared much later to protect the driver from rain and snow.
Also, there are no composters in the tram at all, which is explained simply – then there were a conductor. Probably Bulgakov’s colleague of our tram once slaughtered Berlioz on the Patriarch’s.
But ours was not involved in this. On the contrary, this tram more often saw happy and joyful faces. After all, the retro tram can be ordered to celebrate a wedding or birthday.
We inform our readers that everyone has the opportunity to do it. To do this, you need to contact the CP “Donelektroavtotrans”, where everything will be told in detail. By the anniversary will restore the world’s only car. – Tell me, what surprise the people of Donetsk and the guests of Donetsk on the occasion of the 90th anniversary? –
In June 2018, in honor of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the organization of tram traffic in our city, everyone will have the opportunity to take a walk on retro trams, as well as on trams, decorated with festive paraphernalia, which will run on route No. 1 “DMZ – Railway Station”.
Also, the company plans to prepare a gift for the residents of Donetsk – to restore the tram car of 1959, thereby adding to the list of retro trams. The main value of this KTV-55 tram car is that it is the only one left in the world. Heroes of Donetsk everyday life But still the real hard workers are not retro trams, but quite familiar to us trams and trolley buses. They also performed feats during the war.
“Under the terrible shelling of a stop at Bosse, in January 2015, not only trolley bus No. 17 fell, in which the driver Alexander Miroshnichenko and some passengers died, but also the troika, he was just approaching the stop,” said the head of the Dontelectroavtotrans traffic service Anton Beremesenko. – His driver was able to react in time, stop the tram and release the passengers.
The next explosion was already a few meters away from the tram – the driver Alla Kononenko was injured if she hesitated, there could be more casualties that day. This heroic woman continues to work as a driver to this day and is even awarded the medal “For Labor Valor”.
This is not the only tragedy. On February 2, 2015, another inspector of the technical condition of motor vehicles of the passenger convoy of the Dontelectroavtotrans enterprise, Alexander Pras, was killed during a regular shelling of the Nitrogen residential district, and a production mechanic Yury Krasitsky was injured.
Their names are entered in the Book of Memory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. – I can proudly say that the most valuable thing in the enterprise entrusted to me is the employees! – Yuri Dmitrievich summarized. – These are brave and selfless people.
In all the years of the war, I have never heard from the drivers who took people out under shelling, nor from the workers who restored the contact network and tram lines under bullets,
that they refused to fulfill their official duties. On February 2, 2015, another inspector of the technical condition of motor vehicles of the passenger convoy of the Dontelectroavtotrans enterprise, Alexander Pras, was killed during a regular shelling of the Nitrogen residential district, and a production mechanic Yury Krasitsky was injured.
Their names are entered in the Book of Memory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. – I can proudly say that the most valuable thing in the enterprise entrusted to me is the employees! – Yuri Dmitrievich summarized. –
These are brave and selfless people. In all the years of the war, I have never heard from the drivers who took people out under shelling, nor from the workers who restored the contact network and tram lines under bullets,
that they refused to fulfill their official duties. On February 2, 2015, another inspector of the technical condition of motor vehicles of the passenger convoy of the Dontelectroavtotrans enterprise, Alexander Pras, was killed during a regular shelling of the Nitrogen residential district, and a production mechanic Yury Krasitsky was injured. Their names are entered in the Book of Memory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. –
I can proudly say that the most valuable thing in the enterprise entrusted to me is the employees! – Yuri Dmitrievich summarized. –
These are brave and selfless people. In all the years of the war, I have never heard from the drivers who took people out under shelling, nor from the workers who restored the contact network and tram lines under bullets, that they refused to fulfill their official duties.
Their names are entered in the Book of Memory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. – I can proudly say that the most valuable thing in the enterprise entrusted to me is the employees! – Yuri Dmitrievich summarized. –
These are brave and selfless people. In all the years of the war, I have never heard from the drivers who took people out under shelling, nor from the workers who restored the contact network and tram lines under bullets, that they refused to fulfill their official duties.
Their names are entered in the Book of Memory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. – I can proudly say that the most valuable thing in the enterprise entrusted to me is the employees! – Yuri Dmitrievich summarized. – These are brave and selfless people. In all the years of the war,
I have never heard from the drivers who took people out under shelling, nor from the workers who restored the contact network and tram lines under bullets, that they refused to fulfill their official duties.