The annual Tram Parade, featuring 17 streetcars from different eras, was held in the Russian capital on April 11 to celebrate the Moscow tram network's 116th anniversary. Moscow was not the first Russian city to feature electric trams (it was preceded by Nizhny Novgorod and Sevastopol, among others), and does not even have the most extensive tram network (St. Petersburg proudly calls itself the tram capital of Russia). Nevertheless, the tram still remains an important means of transportation, and judging by the crowd of 200,000 enthralled Muscovites who attended the show Saturday, trams continue to hold a special place in the hearts of the capital's residents.
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Visitors to the Moscow Tram Parade were given heart-shaped stickers to mark the streetcar they liked most. This Swiss-designed, Belarusian-made Stadler Myatselitsa tram seems to have received more “likes” than its competitors.
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An MTV-82 tram (in service 1947-1981), styled after American streetcars of the era.
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An F-series tram (in service 1908-1960) with a ‘Nuremberg’-type trailer car drives past the legendary Stalin skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment.
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An F-series tram (in service 1908-1960) with a ‘Nuremberg’-type trailer car.
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An RVZ-6 tram (in service 1960-1966) followed by a Czechoslovak-made Tatra T-2 SU (in service 1959-1981).
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The Moscow Tram Parade as seen through the windshield of a car on Novokuznetskaya Street.
A Spanish-made Alstom Citadis 301 CIS tram (rechristened as the 71-801) driving past the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment skyscraper.
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Muscovites during a parade devoted to the 166th anniversary of the first tram's commissioning in Moscow
An F-series tram preceded by three Soviet-era police cars also taking part in the Moscow Tram Parade.
This year, the show was visited by more than 200,000 Muscovites.
The American-looking MTV-82 drives past the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment skyscraper, which was built at the same time the tram was launched into production.
