news on route 22 - BKM 321 Olgerd and Trans-Alfa VMZ 5298-01 Avangard trolleybuses going down the Nevsky ave of St Petersburg
in 2024-2025, BKM Holding will deliver 79 new trolleybuses of model 321 of the Olgerd series to St. Petersburg. Last year, Gorelektrotrans received 97 trolleybuses with an increased autonomous range of up to 20 kilometres, model 32100D. In the new ordered series 321 ‘Olgerd’ instead of a compartment with batteries - 5 seating passenger seats, 35 in total, so the reduction of autonomous travel to 250 m contributed to an increase in passenger capacity up to 96 people. The model for St. Petersburg is equipped with various options, including not only USB ports, video cameras, multimedia system, climate control, but also ‘Warm Floor’, ‘Talking City’, driver wakefulness monitoring system and other useful sensors. LED interior lighting and signal lines at the doors are used. The current collectors are equipped with an automatic boom catching system and a system of automatic placement on the catenary network, which does not require the driver to leave the vehicle. In the present trolleybus also you can see additional seat in the driver's cabine for an instructor.
Next to Olgerd trolleybus made in Belarus is seen another low-floor city trolleybus made in Russia by the Trans-Alfa of deeply refreshed ВМЗ-5298-01 Авангард model that received extended autonomous work from the new party of 166 trolleybuses produced for St Petersburg during 2022-23 yy. Modernised Trans-Alfa ВМЗ-5298-01 "Avangard" trolleybuses has extended autonomous work, air conditioning, automatic firefighting system, communication complex GLONASS/GPS, refreshed interiour with new USB 3.0-connectors for charging, Wi-Fi, LED lighting, video surveillance system and onboard navigation.
History of BKM Holding
Olgerd trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
History of Tran-Alfa Plant
In 1994 the Vologda Mechanical Plant (Вологодский механический завод, ВМЗ; VMZ) was transformed into a joint stock company which decided to work in the field of transport engineering and to produce trolleybuses. In 1996 was established the assembly of trolleybuses Škoda 14TrM. In 1997 the trolleybus model VMZ-170 (ВМЗ-170) with increased reliability and electrical safety was developed and put into mass production. In 1999 the next model was presented, VMZ-263, with new body design, comfortable passenger compartment and driver's cabin. In 2000 the first Russian low-floor model VMZ-375 "Leader" (model 5298) was presented. Then the company started development and production of buses. Thus, the first model 5278 of the large class bus designed for urban and suburban transportation was produced. From 2008 to 2011 the enterprise produced city and suburban buses based on KamAZ chassis under the Olimp brand. In 2001 production of trolleybuses was separated into an independent enterprise JSC Trans-Alfa. In 2002 the first Russian low-floor trolleybus Trans-Alfa 5298-01 Avangard (updated VMZ-375, model 5298 Leader) was declared the winner of the contest "100 Best Products of Russia". In 2003 the company's first articulated trolleybus - model 6215 - was put into production, then in 2006 its low-floor version 62151. Since 2013 the financial problems of the plant, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, began. Nevertheless, the production continues. The Trans-Alfa trolleybuses can be found everywhere in Russia and in some foreign countries.
news on route 22 - BKM 321 Olgerd and Trans-Alfa VMZ 5298-01 Avangard trolleybuses going down the Nevsky ave of St Petersburg
in 2024-2025, BKM Holding will deliver 79 new trolleybuses of model 321 of the Olgerd series to St. Petersburg. Last year, Gorelektrotrans received 97 trolleybuses with an increased autonomous range of up to 20 kilometres, model 32100D. In the new ordered series 321 ‘Olgerd’ instead of a compartment with batteries - 5 seating passenger seats, 35 in total, so the reduction of autonomous travel to 250 m contributed to an increase in passenger capacity up to 96 people. The model for St. Petersburg is equipped with various options, including not only USB ports, video cameras, multimedia system, climate control, but also ‘Warm Floor’, ‘Talking City’, driver wakefulness monitoring system and other useful sensors. LED interior lighting and signal lines at the doors are used. The current collectors are equipped with an automatic boom catching system and a system of automatic placement on the catenary network, which does not require the driver to leave the vehicle. In the present trolleybus also you can see additional seat in the driver's cabine for an instructor.
Next to Olgerd trolleybus made in Belarus is seen another low-floor city trolleybus made in Russia by the Trans-Alfa of deeply refreshed ВМЗ-5298-01 Авангард model that received extended autonomous work from the new party of 166 trolleybuses produced for St Petersburg during 2022-23 yy. Modernised Trans-Alfa ВМЗ-5298-01 "Avangard" trolleybuses has extended autonomous work, air conditioning, automatic firefighting system, communication complex GLONASS/GPS, refreshed interiour with new USB 3.0-connectors for charging, Wi-Fi, LED lighting, video surveillance system and onboard navigation.
History of BKM Holding
Olgerd trolleybuses are produced by the Belarus company Belkommunmash (BKM; Производственное Объединение «Белкоммунмаш», БКМ). BKM was organized in 1973 on the basis of the streetcar and trolleybus repair shop under the Ministry of Municipal Economy of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the first two decades the plant was repairing trolleybuses and streetcars of Minsk. After USSR breakage the independent Belarus got a strong incentive to develop its own vehicles production. Therefore a few articulated trolleybuses YMZ T1 (ЮМЗ Т1) were assembled at the plant in 1993 from engineering sets of Yuzhny Machine Building Plant of Ukraine. The enterprise also modernized trolleybuses of the ZIU models 100 - 101 produced by the Engels Electric Transportation Plant (later CJSC "TrolZa") in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. Later the company started to develop its own trolleybus models, the first model AKSM 201 (АКСМ 201) appeared in 1996, followed by models 213, 221, 321 (as in foto) and 333. Since 2000 the production of streetcars started: AKSM-1M, AKSM-60102. In 2016, the production of electric buses has been organized. Today the BKM Holding (ОАО «Управляющая компания холдинга «Белкоммунмаш» - ОАО «УКХ «БКМ) is the leading industrial enterprise in Belarus in the field of production and overhaul of rolling stock of urban electric transport.
History of Tran-Alfa Plant
In 1994 the Vologda Mechanical Plant (Вологодский механический завод, ВМЗ; VMZ) was transformed into a joint stock company which decided to work in the field of transport engineering and to produce trolleybuses. In 1996 was established the assembly of trolleybuses Škoda 14TrM. In 1997 the trolleybus model VMZ-170 (ВМЗ-170) with increased reliability and electrical safety was developed and put into mass production. In 1999 the next model was presented, VMZ-263, with new body design, comfortable passenger compartment and driver's cabin. In 2000 the first Russian low-floor model VMZ-375 "Leader" (model 5298) was presented. Then the company started development and production of buses. Thus, the first model 5278 of the large class bus designed for urban and suburban transportation was produced. From 2008 to 2011 the enterprise produced city and suburban buses based on KamAZ chassis under the Olimp brand. In 2001 production of trolleybuses was separated into an independent enterprise JSC Trans-Alfa. In 2002 the first Russian low-floor trolleybus Trans-Alfa 5298-01 Avangard (updated VMZ-375, model 5298 Leader) was declared the winner of the contest "100 Best Products of Russia". In 2003 the company's first articulated trolleybus - model 6215 - was put into production, then in 2006 its low-floor version 62151. Since 2013 the financial problems of the plant, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, began. Nevertheless, the production continues. The Trans-Alfa trolleybuses can be found everywhere in Russia and in some foreign countries.