Funny holidays - Moscow tram's birthday

Residents of the Russian capital celebrate the birthday of the Moscow tram on April 6 The holiday is timed to coincide with the grand opening in 1899 of the route along which motor cars, rather than horse cars, began to travel for the first time Every spring the Moscow Tram Parade is held in the capital The event is also very popular among citizens, who have great love for this reliable and environmentally friendly mode of transport Before the advent of horse-drawn carriages, the carriages of which moved along rails using horsepower, only wealthy people could travel long distances around Moscow With the opening in the 70s XIX century With the first tram line from the Iversky Gate of Kitay-Gorod to Tverskaya Zastava, travel around the city became accessible to ordinary citizens The horse-drawn carriage accommodated 16-18 people The carriages were mostly two-level - travel in the cabin on the first floor cost 10 kopecks, on the imperial bench on the roof - only 5 Only men could climb the narrow spiral staircase to the second floor, because It was difficult for ladies in fluffy dresses to do this without violating the rules of etiquette This is interesting: The horse-drawn railway in St Petersburg appeared in 1863 The tram traveled along the route “6th line - Konnogvardeisky Boulevard - Admiralteyskaya Square” at a speed of 8-12 km/h And although horse-drawn horse-drawn carriages with box drivers carried about 1 million passengers during the year, the Duma was suspicious of this innovation for a long time Deputies considered this transport dangerous due to the open area of ​​the imperial After the adoption of a project for the construction of horse-drawn railway lines in Moscow in 1872, the number of horse-drawn routes increased, and it began to gain more and more popularity The carriage was served by a coachman, a conductor and postilions who harnessed the horses Despite the commissioning of electric trams in 1899, horse-drawn trams continued to run around Moscow until 1911 The first electric trams were imported from abroad - cars of the German Volkswagen brand and the Czech Ringhofer (modern Tatra) were running around the capital In the 1920s in Kolomna they began to produce domestic models of KM and KP, and after the Second World War, at the aircraft plant in Tushino - MTV-82 Since 2017, modern Vityazi-M vehicles with climate control, information boards, chargers for gadgets and satellite navigation began plying the roads This is interesting: The catchphrase “Annushka has already spilled the oil” from the work of MA is widely known Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita" However, this female name was mentioned in relation to the tram long before the publication of the famous novel In 1911, routes with letter designations appeared in Moscow - “A”, “B” and “C”, which the capital’s residents began to lovingly call “Annushka”, “Bukashka” and “Verochka” During the Great Patriotic War, the tram carried passengers, wounded and cargo, despite shelling He did not stop working during the days of the defense of the capital, even when the metro stopped G Narykov, an employee of the Moscow Transport Museum, emphasizes on his excursions: “They say that if a tram is alive in a city, it means that the city has not yet been broken” It is not for nothing that residents of the capital have special sympathy and respect for this heroic mode of transport And that’s why we happily celebrate the birthday of the Moscow tram on April 6th This is interesting: A tram of two, three or more cars, moving without private stops at an average speed of 21-24 km/h, is often called an above-ground metro For the first time in the USSR, this type of public transport appeared in 1973 in Kyiv Czech Tatra T3 carriages transported capital residents on 3 routes The cost of a ticket for a trip on a high-speed tram was equal to the price of a metro token and amounted to 5 kopecks