Managed by the public transport company Krymtrolleybus, it was built in 1959 in the Ukrainian SSR as an alternative to extending the railway line in Simferopol over the mountains to the coast.
The tram was managed by the public transport company Krymtrolleybus and built in 1959 in the Ukrainian SSR as a way to bypass building a railway line extension from Simferopol across the mountains to the sea.