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Em (underground car)
🇷🇺 Russia ·built by Metrowagonmash· from 1967· Soviet electric multiple unit
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Vagon metro tip Em depo Nevskoye: Alex Alex Lep· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Saint Petersburg Metro 7128 2025-03 Politekhnicheskaya 482: Artyom Svetlov· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Type Em is a Soviet electric multiple unit designed for rapid transit systems in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. They were built by Metrovagonmash in Moscow and Vagonmash in Leningrad. The first experimental railcars of the Em type were built in 1966, and serial production began in 1967.
who runs it
base stats
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 264: 5 full city buses (~50 seats each).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1967
- in service from
- 1967
- number built
- 747
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Metrowagonmash, Vagonmash
- operators
- Moscow Metro, Kyiv 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
- 32.2 t
- capacity
- 264 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q3734179, Wikipedia: Em (underground car) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.