Greek Donation
In 2004, the ILPAP, the operator of trolleybusses in Athens, Greece donated nearly all of its old ZiU-9 trolleybuses to the city of Belgrade and to Georgia. One was donated to the East Anglia Transport Museum
Although Belgrade had ZiU-9 trolleys of its own since late 1970s. In 2010 a public action was taken to save Belgrade's first ZiU-9 from being sold to scrapyard.
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