SZVARZ-Ikarus 283T

The SZVARZ-Ikarus 283T was a trolleybus built in Moscow in 1991 by converting Ikarus 283.00 articulated diesel buses. In the late 1980s the Soviet capital needed trolleybuses with more capacity, because the articulated ZiU-10 was not arriving fast enough. The Sokolniki car repair and building works, known as SZVARZ, worked with the Moscow trolleybus repair works, MTRZ, to rebuild articulated Ikarus buses with electrical parts from the Dinamo factory and a drive that matched the ZiU trolleybuses. Ikarus 280 buses were converted first, and in 1991 five Ikarus 283.00 buses followed. SZVARZ made 58 trolleybuses on Ikarus bases in all, five of them 283T and the rest 280T. The five 283T, fleet numbers 0044 to 0048, entered service in Moscow, and number 0046 moved to Tver in 1992. They were scrapped in 2004.