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[[Image:Dnepropetrovsk 9766s.JPG |left|thumb|Queuing for a tram in Central Dnipropetrovsk. December 2005]]

The Yekaterinoslav tram was opened on 27 June 1897 (according to the modern [[Gregorian calendar]] and 14 June according to the [[Julian calendar]]).<ref name="2365249dnipriretro"/> At the time of opening it was is the third tram system operating in the [[Russian Empire]] (it's predecessors were [[Kyiv Tram]] and [[Trams in Nizhny Novgorod|Nizhny Novgorod Tram]]).<ref name="2365249dnipriretro">{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-tourism/2365249-u-dnipri-vidkrili-pamatnij-znak-retro-tramvaj.html Memorial sign "Retro tram" opened in Dnipro], [[Ukrinform]] (15 December 2017)</ref> The construction and operation was provided by the Belgian company ′Tramways électriques d'Ekaterinoslaw.′′By the end of 1897, two million people had been transported.<ref name="2365249dnipriretro"/> The initial tram system was based on [[metre gauge|1000&nbsp;mm gauge]] and included 3<ref name="2365249dnipriretro"/> tram lines starting from the Catherine the Great Avenue (modern name is Dmytro Yavornytskyi Avenue). The routes were<ref name="2365249dnipriretro"/>:

* Steamboat hithe – Proviant str. (Paster Street) – Catherine the Great ave. (Dmytro Yavornytskyi ave.);

* Jordan str (Kotsyubynskyi str.) – Karaimska str (Shyrshov str);