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KTV-55: No Prophet in One's Own Motherland

(Part 2)

By way of disposing of its own cars, Kiev gave away a number of them to other cities. A few ended up in Konotop, where this 65 is depicted on route 3, at that time possessing a stub track.
(Photo from the Kiev Electric Transportation Museum)

In Kiev itself, the history of KTV-55-2's as passenger cars (single-ended cars and trailers were withdrawn even earlier) ended up together with the history of route 8 when car 2020 (remember?) pulled into the depot. A commemorative photo with that car in the background.
(Foto © Kiev Electric Transportation Museum and Constantin Antonenko)

The car itself was not scrapped and continued to be used as a service car. In 1992, it took part in a 100th anniversary parade along Naberezhnoye Shosse and Pochtovaya Ploschad, just next to Vladimirsky Descent...
(Photo from the Kiev Electric Transportation Museum)

... however, time has not spared the relic. In its present state, basically all that remains of the 2020 is the body. Although, all is not lost as yet, and the unique car could still be restored.
(Central depot, 27 October 2001)

Some other ones got more lucky. The car's being double-ended makes it especially valuable as a rescue car, and it is thanks to this that some KTVs are still functional nowadays, like this AV-2.
(Central depot, 23 December 2001)

Deprived of some doors and windows and in a different livery, it is nonetheless readily recognizable as the former hero of routes 8, 16, and 30.
(Photo © Constantin Antonenko, 2001)

Its "colleague", the AV-3, was not just as lucky, with its original **kuzov** gone (but another pantograph added). It is recognizable as a KTV-55-2 by its emergency brake trigger in the lower front part.
(Photo © Constantin Antonenko, 2001)

Finally, the only single-ended KTV-55 (ex-1113) to survive, did so because it was sent to Donetsk where it works to this day as a rail-welding car by number T-12. (The source erroneously calls it a double-ended KTV-55-2.) There is an idea to return it to its native town as a museum car...
(Photo from "Tramways and Light Rail", 2002)

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	By way of disposing of its own cars, Kiev gave away a number of them to other cities. A few ended up in Konotop, where this 65 is depicted on route 3, at that time possessing a stub track. (Photo from the Kiev Electric Transportation Museum)
	In Kiev itself, the history of KTV-55-2's as passenger cars (single-ended cars and trailers were withdrawn even earlier) ended up together with the history of route 8 when car 2020 (remember?) pulled into the depot. A commemorative photo with that car in the background. (Foto © Kiev Electric Transportation Museum and Constantin Antonenko)
	The car itself was not scrapped and continued to be used as a service car. In 1992, it took part in a 100th anniversary parade along Naberezhnoye Shosse and Pochtovaya Ploschad, just next to Vladimirsky Descent... (Photo from the Kiev Electric Transportation Museum)
	... however, time has not spared the relic. In its present state, basically all that remains of the 2020 is the body. Although, all is not lost as yet, and the unique car could still be restored. (Central depot, 27 October 2001)
	Some other ones got more lucky. The car's being double-ended makes it especially valuable as a rescue car, and it is thanks to this that some KTVs are still functional nowadays, like this AV-2. (Central depot, 23 December 2001)
	Deprived of some doors and windows and in a different livery, it is nonetheless readily recognizable as the former hero of routes 8, 16, and 30. (Photo © Constantin Antonenko, 2001)
	Its "colleague", the AV-3, was not just as lucky, with its original kuzov gone (but another pantograph added). It is recognizable as a KTV-55-2 by its emergency brake trigger in the lower front part. (Photo © Constantin Antonenko, 2001)
	Finally, the only single-ended KTV-55 (ex-1113) to survive, did so because it was sent to Donetsk where it works to this day as a rail-welding car by number T-12. (The source erroneously calls it a double-ended KTV-55-2.) There is an idea to return it to its native town as a museum car... (Photo from "Tramways and Light Rail", 2002)