The Kiev tram scenes of the beginning of the 20th century, when the tram was the only kind of public transportation in the city. From Aleksandrovskiy Spusk (Descent) to Kreschatik, Fundukleevskaya, Lvovskaya... few people even know that trams used to run there. All the more interesting will it be to recall this.
Unique pictures more than forty years old, by Raymond De Groote. Shots of amazing quality feature Vladimirskaya St., the line to the Lavra, and much more...
Tram number eight, still remembered by quite a few downtown inhabitants, ran along Tolstogo St. from 1910 until 1987. In 2001, the last piece of its former route was shut down.
The first electric tram line in the Russian Empire was open on 13 June 1892 and shut down on 11 April 1977. It connected the neighborhood of Podol with Kreschatik, later on with Pechersk. In the last period of its existence, route 16 ran there.