the depot, N.H. Salahitdinovu. His crew of mechanics and electricians coped with the task - six buses were converted to trolleybuses during 2001 - giving them two extra years of service life. On 9 September 2004, the mayor of Dushanbe, Mahmadsayid Ubaydullayev, and the CEO of the Russian JSC "Trolza-Market", Paul Berlin, signed a contract for the procurement of 100 new trolley buses to meet Dushanbe's public transport needs. The first deliveries of new trolleybuses under this contract began in the summer and autumn of 2005, and the last, one hundredth, machine arrived in April 2006. With the commissioning of the new machines, older trolleybuses in the fleet were withdrawn. Services As of 2006, Dushanbe had eight trolleybus lines: nos 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 14. The Dushanbe trolleybus system has a few operational features that have become conventional in recent years. As of 2017 the first concerns the method of payment for travel and loading procedures. Each serving trolleybus has a crew of 2 persons. One is the driver and the second one collects the ticket fee and remounts the collector in case it jumps off. A ticket costs currently 1 Somoni for an adult. Due to the 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. Fleet As at August 2011, the current fleet of Dushanbe trolleybuses was based upon the standard ZiU-9 trolleybus design: TrolZa-5264.01 "Capital" (nos 1000-1003); ZiU-682H-016 (012) (nos 1004-1039, 2000-2027); ZiU-682H-016 (018) (nos 1042, 1053, 1054, 1058, 1059, 1072-1083, 2038, 2046, 2051-2079); ZiU-682V (nos 1177, 2095, 2099). All Dushanbe trolleybuses are painted in the system's standard white and green livery. Depots The Dushanbe system has two depots. See also List of trolleybus systems References External links Климов Костянтин [Konstantin Klimov] Важкі маршрути тролейбусів Душанбе (Difficult trolleybus routes in Dushanbe), at www.omnibus.ru Urban Electric Transit – Dushanbe database / photo gallery – Dushanbe trolleybus list – in various languages, including English. Transport (Транспорт) in Dushanbe official website (Офіційний сайт міста Душанбе) Trolleybus city : Dushanbe on www.trolleymotion.com Dushanbe Transport in Tajikistan Dushanbe