Trolleybuses in Dushanbe significant deterioration of the overhead wire network, the current collectors come down frequently. The ticket person is therefore trained and able to remount the collectors in less than one minute. As at August 2011, the current fleet of Dushanbe trolleybuses was based upon the standard ZiU-9 trolleybus design: All Dushanbe trolleybuses are painted in the system's standard white and green livery. The Dushanbe system has two depots. Trolleybuses in Dushanbe The Dushanbe trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network of Dushanbe, the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. In operation since 1955, the system presently comprises eight routes.
Dushanbe the area the next year. At the beginning of 1922, the town was taken by Basmachi troops led Enver Pasha, but on 14 July 1922 again came under the power of the Bolsheviks and was proclaimed the capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924. A Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic separate from the Uzbek SSR was created in 1929, and its capital Dyushambe was renamed "Stalinabad" (Russian: ; Tajik: "Stalinobod") for Joseph Stalin on 16 October 1929. In the years that followed, the city developed at a rapid pace.