The Legendary Soviet KTM-5 Tram: Defeats And Victories, Joy And Sorrow, Hope And Desperation
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- The second part of our story about the KTM-5, also known as 71-605, a legendary red soviet streetcar that miraculously outlived its descendants and still servers the streets of some former USSR republic. Today we'll explore more post-soviet tram systems, as well as check out some bizarre monster-tram modifications and crush a few tram parties!
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - The only tram car in town
01:10 - The secret to tram's long life
02:07 - A tram cafe / restaurant
03:08 - Why are the post-soviet cities so sad?
04:38 - An unlivable socialist utopia city of Naberezhnye Chelny
05:40 - The diesel tram of Tbilisi
06:17 - Performing an overhaul on a tram
06:33 - Overhauled KTM-5 trams
07:25 - A Christmas tram (and a New Year's Eve)
08:18 - KTM-5 tram redesigns
09:01 - A single-carriage double-ended tram car
10:00 - KTM-5 tramway modelling
10:45 - There still is a hope!
Voice-over: Grant Bolton
Video Courtesies:
Последний трамвай в погибающем моногороде ("The Last Tram In A Dying Monotown") - РИА Новый День
Трамвай-кафе Пермь / Romantic Tram Cafe - Роман Кобелев
Страна труда. Водитель трамвая-кафе ("The Land Of Labor. A Driver Of The Tram Cafe") - Телеканал Хабар 24
Набережные Челны. Молодые города. Документальный фильм (1979) ("Naberezhnye Chelny. The Young Cities. Documentary (1979)") - Советское телевидение. ГОСТЕЛЕРАДИОФОНД России
Tbilisi (Georgia) Tiflis / თბილისი / Tram / ტრამვაი / Streetcar / Straßenbahn - Irakli Zhozhuashvili, Dave Spencer
TRAMS TROLLEYBUSES IN ASTRAKHAN RUSSIA 1997 - DaveSpencer32
Астраханский трамвай 2007 ("Astrakhan Tram 2007") - trolleway
End of Ivanovo tram /Конец Ивановского трамвая - trolleway
Ярославский трамвай 1(2)-2 ("Yaroslavl Tram 1(2)-2") - trolleway
Ярославский трамвай в 2009 перед погромом в центре 1(2) ("Yaroslavl Tram In 2009 Before The Pogrom In The City Center") - trolleway
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"This tram would be the perfect public transportation choice for a colony on mars"
Well, there are a lot of town in russia that are so remote, they may as well be on mars, so fair enough
They did launch Mars probes before the USSR collapsed, so there could very well be chances in some other timeline that USSR didn't collapsed, they got a KTM-5 running on Mars today within their Mars colony.
Not to mention that tram can handle massive swings in weather temperature from Siberian cold snaps to Siberian heat waves (they can get pretty hot and sticky in the summer)
As 'mars' is only a delusional fiction, i would say the trams ( which are REAL and not imaginary ) will do a lot better with some logical and much needed rail maintainance here on ACTUAL earth.
@@colliecandle ?
@@colliecandle what?
The ingenuity of people is amazing. They will never die as long as people refuse to let them die. Congratulations to all the people who have toiled to keep them going all these years.
But as pointed out modern trams get written off, because the electronic circuit boards, cannot be repaired or replaced.
Old mechanical based systems can be repaired.
I remember those things. Big rusty and noisy. With chain-pulled guillotine doors.
Whenever people got smashed by those - they could not restore their breath before riding through 2-3 tram stations.
Also as a kid I loved that the door were operated by relays (often exposed into passenger compartment). Since they usually were bodge-repaired they emitted different colors sparks: yellow, green, red, white, depending on the contactor materials bodged into those.
90s were miserable times... But as kids we've seen nuggets of beauty in ugly things.
oooh fireworks in the doors
Oh, I remember one of the KTM-5 was serving in Moscow, near Tulskaya street. I think it was in 2008-2009. And, if you search for pictures of more modern Russian tram cars, you will find out, that the KTM-5's legendary emergency brake design is implemented in nearly all trams, produced after 70's.
One or more used to work in Saint-Petersburg along the "prosveschenia avenue" in early 2000's.
Wonderful surprise to hear a 90s Serbian patriotic song in the background
I failed to found any Georgian music that was not copyrighted on CZcams, and that's when Rodoljub „Roki” Vulović, who sings almost the same, but is not greedy for money, helped me out 😀
Where I can not spot it?
@@intel386DX 5:40
@@Usmodlover thanks :)
Can someone please tell me the title?
Фантистически добрый репортаж. Чувак так любит наши КТМки! А помните, как сквозь форточки вода в дождь затекает внутрь? :)
Только недавно с этим столкнулся, не очень-то и приятно
Шикарно
Yes I agree
Сука
Я аж на заплакал. 10 лет этому трамваю отдал, а теперь из-за маршрутчиков трамвая больше нет
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Эти трамваи делают в Челябинской области, в гор. Усть-Катав. У нас в Челябинске, трамваи пока ходят, но только потому, что по словам наших властей, разбирать трамвайные пути, и убирать контактную сеть, экономически не выгодно! (Читай много с этого не получишь)! Сами трамваи в плачевном состоянии, но пока держаться. Новые вагоны не закупают, по словам наших чиновников, трамваи ходят по рельсам, а потому не подвержены ударным нагрузкам на ходвую, как троллейбусы, или автобусы! Потому их можно и не менять, а просто подремонтировать. Прикольно ехать на работу, на трамвае, на котором ездил ещё в детский сад!))
Но у нас дела обстоят ещё не плохо. Был я в Таганроге, так там путейцев просто разогнали, а чтобы снизить аварийность, отключили у трамваев 4-ю и 3-ю ходовые позиции, чтоб сильно не разгонялись! А что, и дёшево и сердито!
Во всём мире в больших городах есть гор электро транспорт, только у нас это почему-то не выгодно!
@@alex19712402 в Воронеже ещё печальнее ситуация. Когда-то одна из самых крупных трамвайных сетей была. Ключевое слово когда-то. Пока не пришёл в меры города урод - Ковалёв. Продажная скотина, которая запустила процесс уничтожения всего легкорельсового транспорта в городе. А теперь каждый мер плачется: "Какая же это была ошибка. Нужно вернуть трамвай!", а по факту для этого делается целое ничего. Просто зарабатывают популярность для выборов и пилят бюджет тратя миллионы на планы, проекты и экономические обоснования того, что даже не планируют возвращать. Подозреваю, что при составлении нового ген. плана они употребляли тяжёлые наркотики т.к. они нарисовали там трамвайную сеть больше чем Московский метрополитен, МЦК и монорельс вместе взятые. У них трамвай до соседнего города идёт! Почему после составления и принятия подобного бреда таких людей не снимают с должностей? Им же очевидно насрать на свою работу!
Слава богу, в моем городе начали вытеснять маршрутчиков и развивать электротранспорт (Мариуполь)
@@kubiborglar поздравляем.
The video brought back happy memories of living in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, 25 years ago. The KTM-5s epitomise so much of what I loved about Russia then. A few of the routes in Krasnoyarsk still survive, and with roads often now at a standstill thanks to private car ownership of a level which the Soviet town planners could never have imagined, the trams have gone from being the slowest to the fastest means of transport! May they live on long.
As someone living in Nab. Chelny, I can assure you it's not so bad now. Also our tramway was lengthened and there are plans of making it even more longer. Loved your video, tho ;)
I would've never thought I'd be watching a video about Soviet trams in the post-Soviet Union 😅
It was actually quite fascinating to watch...
КТМ-5 родной трамвай! Досих пор работает на линиях
KTM-5 is a native tram! So far working on the lines
A big thank you for this video! I was glad to see even my city in this video. The city of Perm. That Romantic Tram Cafe is very popular, people have to book places for days before their ride. The city has enough money to buy new trams and replace these old KTMs, but those ones wich still work is on very good and strong condition and do their work very well.
3:24 And that's when they knew... ordering the red wine was a mistake.
Могу прямо сейчас выйти из дома, 3 минуты пройти до остановки, 5 минут подождать и подъедет КТМ-5)))
Помню, когда был маленький, поехал с бабушкой и мамой с папой кататься на трамвае, это был КТМ-5. Он был очень красивым и большим, что вызывало у меня большое изумление от его вида.
Это было зимой, внутри было прохладно, а из окна слепило солнце. Он ехал не спеша, качаясь из стороны в сторону, скрипя, неуклюжий трамвайчик, в салоне было тихо, спокойно и уютно. От этого мне и понравилась поездка на нем.
Увы, это была моя первая и последняя поездка не только на КТМ, а на трамваях в целом. Через неделю-две, трамвайную линию в городе у нас закрыли.
Г.Иваново.))
( 4:05, где написано "ГОСПИТАЛЬ", это кадры из моего города, Иваново. )
За одну поездку, спустя столько лет, ко мне пришло осознание и я прочувствовал всю Мощь и Ламповость Атмосферы этого Советского трудяги.)))
Трамвай самый тёплый, ламповый и духовный вид транспорта. А ламбошрутки надо отправить на чермет.
японское шассси? фирмы исудзу? отправить на чермет? да я тебя за это!
What a wonderful story, and so very well presented. I love the personal stories intertwined with the story of the vehicles themselves--the restaurant car, the tram drivers, the young inventors. Such beautiful people.
Amazing video! Everything looks in one breath. Everything is concise and clear. Very well set voice, initially I thought that I was watching a video from a channel that has 100k subscribers, but then I saw that there are 600. I wish you good luck in promoting your content, the videos are very interesting!
With love from Russia, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the city of Ufa.
P.S. In our city, KTM-5 was also used before, but in 2009, after the division of the tram system into the southern and northern ones, due to poor road policy (something like the big automobile American dream), many cars were written off, including KTM-5, RVZ-6M2. Now in the northern depot, Tatra T-3s are mostly operated, and in the southern KTM-8 (now there are about 65 of them) with several modern cars.
Now in the city there is a question about the unification of lines, but it is not clear how this will happen, since the transport company has gone bankrupt and has been suffering losses for 5 years. In addition, the oil is added to the fire by the drivers of cars that oppose the tram. We really hope that everything will be fine with the tram.
P. P. S If you want, I can write in more detail about our tram system as well as a little about KTM-8.
P. P. P. S I hope that by translating everything from Russian to English I did not distort the meaning of some words and sentences.
Thank you! You comment brought me a good luck, it's now twice the 600 subscribers 😀
It's sad that there was no Ufa KTM-5 footage available on CZcams.
@@RailwaysoftheWorld19.38 - съезд с моста на ул.Яблочкова .Астрахань жжёт ! 9.50 - ул.Волжская . 9.53 -гдето в районе городского кладбища при ул. С.Перовской .Два предыдущих -10.58 возможно около Татар базара ,второй 11.05 площадь Октябрьская , 11.08 трамвай №3 идёт от конечной остановки на "Холодильники" .
True, nice video, there is just a little mistake. Mostwidely produced tram was czechoslovakian Tatra T3 (shown on begining)
Are the T3 yellow? With black-grey seats? Then they were from Berlin. Where i live :D
We sold all of our Tatra trams to eastern europe, replaced them with modern Bombardier Flexity.
Уфа - точно российский город? Нет КТМ? Капец, в Хабаровске эксплуатируются и КТМ-5 и РВЗ, и еще КТМ-23 немало,Татр никогда не было
Simplicity and durability will always win out over expensive complexity
A wonderfully rugged and versatile tram. I well remember my guide in Novosibersk becoming excited when I asked her to take me for a ride round the city by tram. When a KTM5 arrived at the stop, she loudly exclaimed "Oh good - a Red Devil! I used these when I was a child!" The ride quality was very bouncy and rough, but it was exciting and we both thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Vert interesting follow-up to the first video. Well researched, great narration, and certainly a unique and exotic subject that keeps certainly my attention focused right until the end of the video.
Keep plugging away at it. Your production standards are very high, and I am certainly looking forward to more video from you. You deserve many more subscribers! :)
Thank you very much!
Marshrutka maffia.. I've never heard about this on any other channel. Very interesting content.
the joke in the minibus is (in what way the minibus differs from the bus.) that there are benefits for pinceoneers, veterans, disabled people in the bus, but not in the minibus (but in the minibus, if there are a lot of people, you can always ride a hare for free (do not pay)) in large buses, trams, metro, there is an unlimited tariff for the elderly and the disabled, they can travel as much as they want for $ 10 (700 rubles) per month, and in general, one-way travel costs 28 rubles on the bus, and in a minibus 35elnt in one direction and the card does not work in it - the tariff for 700. and according to the schedule, the bus runs once 30 minutes and the minibus once 5 minutes and there will be no big bus. I live in Nizhny Novgorod
Жалко КТМ 5 многое пережил
У нас до сих пор жив и бегает
@@user-hm1xh4fh9s у нас их куча, и все как новенькие
Во Владивостоке еще живые остались хоть и единственном маршруте
Fascinating and educational. Thanks!
I live in Krasnodar, and when I accidentally saw the first part in the recommendations, I immediately thought that I had not seen these trams for a long time, but I saw many "other" Soviet-looking trams in surprisingly good condition. It turned out that these were just repaired KTM-5s. I didn’t expect to learn so many new things about the hometown of the foreign protram video, lol.
why do you have only 600 subscribers?!? you deserve 600K subscribers! these are some of the best videos ive ever seen!
Thank you! I am working on it 😀
:) at 4k now...
@@VanessaScrillions LMFAO
Thank you for making such videos, mister. These trams remind me of 90's and 00's where there was a lot of these trams. I loved them. They were noisy, bouncy, ringing but they ringed with my heart. I admit, I love trolleybuses more (I don't know of you made a video about them) but trams is such an amazing legacy we have.
I even remember going to culinary college and actually using tram to get there, 15 minutes from subway, from here to the-e-re...and back. Such memories.
I'm from Saint-Petersburg by the way 🤝
Beautiful story, thanks for shering it with us.
KTM-5 and Tatra T3 are the legendary vehicles.
I think that learning about this streetcar, how important they are to so many people, and the role they play in the community is so beautiful, thank you for your videos!
I can't imagine how beautiful can be Russia with such amazing people live there without their corrupt government.
Amazing this is wonderful, these trams are such a benefit to their communities and cost next to nothing to run.
Breaks my heart imagining if all the small community streetcar networks in the United States had stuck around and not replaced by buses.
In claiming that the KTM 5 is the most numerous tram class in the world, one should bear in mind that the Tatra T4 was identical to the Tatra T3, except that it was a narrower version for certain cities (2.2 rather than 2.5 metres wide). Only for this reason did it have a different class number. The combined total of T3/T4 trams produced was 16,748 including 122 unpowered trailers. It's a pedantic point of course and both the Russian and the Czech tram hold an honorable place at the top of the world statistics board.
Great video! It would be interesting for me as a Czech if you'd make a video about the Tatra T3 trams in former USSR. In the Czech Republic, T3s are knows as reliable and sturdy machines heck the capital city of Prague still has over 400 units, so it would be interesting to know how those over 11 000 trams worked in Russia.
Wow, your videos have such high product quality and content diversity unlike no other train CZcams channel I know. Your work truly deserves the title documentary!
2:53 Her hairdresser has been blind for years, he just hasn't told her yet..
"Peaceful red tram" Aww, how cute!
Another wonderful and informative video.
Fantastic!!! Happy New Year to you.
Amazing video. Really enjoyed watching every minute of this and the first part!
Awesome documentaries about these wonderful machines, thank you :)
Thank You! Very positive film. Wish You happy holidays to!
Спасибо за видео, посмотрел оба видеоролика с субтитрами. Я живу на Урале и в моем городе ходят как трамваи, так и маршрутки, трамваи есть как советские показанные в видео, так и современные. Хорошо было бы если новых трамваев еще больше было бы, еще недавно меняли трамвайные пути, это тоже хорошо.
Скучаю по теплым сиденьям-черпакам! С мороза сесть замерзшей частью тела на горячее и ноги у тена погреть такое удовольствие было, как баня. В трамвае холодно, а ценной части тела тепло.
А ещё КТМ 5 теперь объединил разноязычные народы. Реально трамвай-герой!
And KTM 5 has now united multilingual peoples. Really, the tram is a hero! 8-)
What a delightful video!......a fascinating and amazing country,!
A wonderful example of our love for the things we enjoy instinctively. Thanks a lot!
Очень крутой канал. От путешествия в Барселону вообще восторг.
Спасибо большое!
40 minutes headway’s. Fail. “Red boxes”. Hahah. That’s what they are. These videos are fascinating
Really appreciate the respectful way the story being told. God job, comrade!
Amazing video. Crisp and informative.
Loved hearing hej hej kikore in the background. Roki is the best!
I want to make a video about railways of Serbia in the next year. For now I don't know much about the subject and have absolutely no idea about the contents of the video, but I definitely know what will be the soundtrack 😀
Haha ni sam primetio gde se cuje pesma? :D
Thanks for this second episode. ☺️👍🏼
Amazing video! Thank you very much!
This is beautifully upbeat and makes me love the KTM-5. Thank you.
In Perm we have around 100 trams still running, КТМ is one of them, tram sistem in my city is almoust 100 years old. I also dreamed of becoming a tram driver in my childhood😅
Lovely video. Thank you for sharing
Amazing video !
A great video, very interesting and informative. It's great to learn about this venerable and even noble tram, dutifully serving the commuting public. Thank you for producing and sharing it.
Really lovely and well made! Keep up!
9:15 Were they really such a breakthrough? Japan is full of those. In fact, the remaining four 161-series units in Osaka and Sakai are not only single-carriage double-ended cars, but, with them currently doing their 93rd year of service, are the oldest tramcars in regular service. To put it into perspective, these trams were already 35 years old when KTM-5's started production. And they're still in almost mint condition.
Most pre WW2 trams were single-car double-ended models.
2-sided cabin tram-cars were never very common in Russia 'coz almost every city with trams had (and has) place for tram turnarounds. Probably the most common 2-sided trams are in Saint-Petersburg
Набережные Челны - один из самых удобных городов в которых я бывал! Это довольно современная и удобная система обозначений домов, где каждый дом в городе имеет свой оригинальный номер и не привязан к названию улицы. И названия улиц там были всегда))
Great videos and now I know about the story of the people's tram, the KTM5.
I hope you & yours are well & happy!
💜☮️
the person in the first vid who said every country should have a babushka driving a KTM5.. captured the essence of the teams and drivers perfectly.. our PATH trains and the hudson / Bergen light rail trains call me to mind when i'm watching the KTM5's 🤗😊😀👍
wow , amazing overview !!!
Great video thanks!
Nice narration!
Thanks Comrade. Really enjoyed
Very nice video, thank you.
Beautiful video. We too miss our old trains.
I feel a deep nostalgia after watching this, even if I don’t live in Russia and, of course, I didn’t ride any of these trams.
Nice video!
Belles pages de nostalgie de ces véhicules mythiques qui transportèrent tant d'espoirs ! Pensées de France.
Liked and subbed! Great stuff! It’s the little things that make a people!
Great! Thank you for this video. Must see it, must visit it. Greetings from Belgrade and Budapest! :)
Wow, this channel is awesome.
о, продолжение !!)) круто !!!)) спасибо !!))) интересные видосы )))
Thank You!
Wonderful story and pictures, both episodes, I learned a lot. I only took a KTM5 once while I was in Biysk, Siberia. It is true, they are mostly found in remote provincial towns. In Barnaul I didn't see any, they seem to prefer CKD T3SU and T6B5SU.
Barnaul (and also Novokuznetsk) are the easternmost cities with Tatra T3!
Wow.. built tough. Also you gotta love switching tracks with a crowbar.
Great story, well told. I had seen film of the KTM-5 cars operating in many cities, but did not know their history. I have even more respect for these robust vehicles, the citizens who travel daily on them, and the people who maintain them and keep them going.
Nice vidy! Good job!
In my native city KTM-5 are still working too👍
Pityfully, citizens of many US towns can only imagine aboute 'unbelievable' 40 minutes frequency public transportation. I am not mentioning condition of US urban rail transport just in a manner of courtesy.
Qite long, Imho
@Matt We know. Most european adults too. But we, who are not adults yet, need a good public transport. And also, (speaking of prague where I live) most adults living near tram or metro use them to travel to the center. It's faster, more ecologic, you don't need to drive, you can reed or work. Also, If everybody would Instead of Trams and Metro use their own car, the traffic would absolutely fail. European cities are just not prepared for cars.
@@user-ib9pz6id5b American cities that arent completely car dependent are also better to live in, as you can walk for daily errands.
Wow i am really glad to find this channel .. greeting from Egypt
Thank you for the video! It’s very interesting to learn about the tram and all the various cities in the Russia and other countries which use it. If you get a chance, you should check out the history of the interurban trolleys that would run for many miles at high speeds (even up to 140 kph!) between cities in America during the early 1900’s. There are only a couple of them left.
I never knew these existed before your videos. And i like these are even simpler than T3.
Your voice makes me chill
Cool
Thanks 👍
Great video. Greetings from Brazil.
Terrific machines and great scenery.
Dear Railways of the World, Great video!!! Congratulations!!! I also would like to suggest a subject: The Melbourne Tramway Network
Спасибо за видео, приятно знать что кому то интересна история транспорта твоей страны, жалко что нашему правительству на это наплевать, было бы интересно увидеть видео про троллейбусы
Great video!
This mode of transportations - tram - may come back when fuel cost will restrain transport in many nations by 2040's; and it will make inroads again partially and succesfully in some areas of the many nations. Oil will be depleted but before that there will be reliable transort or connection issues and this will make come back, besides trolleybus.
Well In Prague, where I live, trams are still (along with metro) the backbone of public transport...And of whole transport...without them, so many people would need to use car and traffic in Prague would probably fail. But Its true Prague has 3. biggest tram network, so idk how it works somewhere else.
I love historical documentaries about old Soviet engineering marvels. ❤ 😀
I love this so much!
I am now emotional invested in these trams
Hearing the Serbian music pop up in the background gave me a damn PTSD moment, that being said...interesting choice and great video my friend
Wow, how did your channel blow up so incredibly fast? Amazing!
The infamous magic of CZcams algorithm. Hope I’ll be able to make a few more videos like this.
You just have an excellent channel, it's a pity I didn't come across it earlier, please make a video about the most massive trolleybus ZIU-9/682