03 NOVEMBER / 2025
The "E" ("Ye") type trains began operating in the Baku metro, ceremoniously opened on November 6, 1967. Their production started in 1956 at the Mytishchi Wagon Manufacturing Plant, and the first two test wagons were ready by the end of 1959. Initially in Tbilisi and later in Baku, the plant's production capacity was increased. In 1967, 29 wagons along with spare parts were sent from the Mytishchi plant to Baku. In total, 824 "E" type wagons were produced between 1959 and 1969. By the early 2000s, all 47 "E" type wagons brought to the Baku metro had been withdrawn from service. By 2006, only one wagon from the first train remained and is kept as a museum exhibit. The production of "E" type wagons ceased in the late 1969, and the Mytishchi plant switched to producing the "EJ" type with reinforced undercarriages and salon parts treated with new polymeric materials. The mass production of this new type of wagon continued until the 1979s, with 104 units operated on the Baku metro lines. The last of these was withdrawn from service in 2009.
