DE1

DE1 is a Ukrainian series of DC electric locomotives. It is the first electric locomotive developed by Ukraine since the end of the Soviet Union. The DE1 was produced for service in the Near-Dnieper and the Donets Basin regional divisions of the Ukrainian Railways. All of them were produced by the Dnepropetrovsk research-and-production association for electric locomotive engineering.

History
By the middle of the 1990s there was a need to replace the ageing VL8 locomotives, which had stopped operating in Russia were only being used by that point on the Near-Dnieper and Donets territorial railways in southeastern Ukraine. The Dnepropetrovsk electric locomotive factory was tasked with developing a new electric locomotive.

The first two units produced, numbered DE1-001 (made in 1995) and DE1-002 (in 1997), became test prototypes that were used to further develop the design. They were both retired in 2007 and 2013, respectively. By 2008, a total of 40 units of the DE1 were produced.

Technical specifications
The series was succeeded by the DS3 locomotives.