Tatra T3SU tram restored at Moscow Transport Museum

The Tatra T3SU tram has been restored at the Museum of Transport in Moscow. This was announced on Sunday, April 6, by Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of the capital for Transport and Industry.

According to him, the Tatra T3SU is a high—floor, four-axle tramcar produced in Czechoslovakia from 1976 to 1987. 11,368 wagons were delivered to the USSR, which became the world's largest series of trams that were sold to one country. It was one of the most recognizable trams in the USSR.

The restoration was completed by the 126th anniversary of the start of tram traffic in the capital.

"After the opening of the Museum's permanent exhibition on Novoryazanskaya Street, the carriage will become part of the ground—floor exposition," Liksutov was quoted as saying by the Moscow City News agency.

Tatra T3SU wagon No. 5993 arrived in the capital in 1987 as part of the last major delivery of this model to the Soviet Union. He made his last flight in 2009, then towed museum wagons for several years, after which he turned into an exhibit at the museum of retrotechnology. The appearance of the passenger car was returned to him in 2018, it was restored to the form in which he walked in the early 1990s.

Oksana Bondarenko, director of the Moscow Museum of Transport, noted that the Tatra T3SU tram is a symbol of an entire era in the history of Moscow transport, Moscow 24 reports.

On March 24, after a large—scale restoration that took over a year and a half, a unique specimen returned to the collection of the Moscow Transport Museum - a badly damaged GAZ-M20A taxi. This is the first post-war taxi launched into mass production, RIAMO notes.

On March 19, the Metropolitan Museum of Transport took into storage a prototype of the first unmanned bus "Matryoshka. It is designed to carry eight passengers. The experimental sample will become one of the 53 exhibits of the permanent exhibition. 360.ru .

On February 23, Liksutov said that the restoration of the 1972 GAZ-51P car had been completed at the Moscow Transport Museum. This is the only restored copy of such a tractor truck, writes RT.

On February 9, Maxim Liksutov announced that more than 40 exhibits will be repaired at the Moscow Transport Museum in 2025. Since 2020, the Moscow Transport Museum has restored and restored 35 iconic vehicles and 76 artifacts for the capital, Regnum News agency notes.