#3716· Vagon metro tipa E

E (underground car)

🇷🇺 Russia ·built by Metrowagonmash· from 1963· Soviet electric multiple unit

6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences

1. E subway train at Studencheskaya station: Iona at Russian Wikipedia· Public domain
2. Metrovagonmash Ečs: No machine-readable author provided. Che assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 2.5
3. Em subway trains: Alex Alex Lep· CC BY-SA 3.0
4. Ezh3 subway trains: Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov from Moscow, Russia· CC BY-SA 2.0
5. Ev in Budapest: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 5894 : Adományozó/Donor: Lovas Gábor. archive copy at the Wayback Machine· CC BY-SA 3.0
6. Ezh subway trains: Serguei Trouchelle· CC BY-SA 2.5

what is it?

Type E is a Soviet electric multiple unit designed for rapid transit systems in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. The trains were built by Metrovagonmash in Moscow. The first experimental railcars of the E type were built in 1959, and serial production began in 1963.

who runs it

Moscow Metro Tbilisi Metro Kyiv Metro Baku Metro Saint Petersburg Metro

base stats

speed 90 km/htop speed
power 66 kWpower output
weight 31.5 tin working order
seats 260passengers
built 822made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

First built 63 years ago, in 1963.
Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
19.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
Seats 260: 5 full city buses (~50 seats each).
Served for 54 years (1961–2015).

metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.

spec sheet

built: 1963
in service from: 1961
retired: 2015
status: retired
number built: 822
kind: metro
traction: electric
origin: 🇷🇺 Russia
builders: Metrowagonmash
operators: Moscow Metro, Tbilisi Metro, Kyiv Metro, Baku Metro, Saint Petersburg Metro
top speed: 90 km/h
power: 66 kW
gauge: 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
electric system: 750 V DC third rail
length: 19.2 m
weight: 31.5 t
capacity: 260 passengers
Dutch name: Vagon metro tipa E

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

family

Sources: Wikidata Q2376563, Wikipedia: E (underground car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.