How it was 27.02.2000 (2000)

The program topic is "Railway disaster near Ufa". 1989. The Asha disaster is the peak of the ineffective, emergency economic system created in the USSR over 70 years.

On the night of June 3-4, 1989, on the Asha-Ulyu-Telyak section, a gas explosion occurred due to a malfunction of the gas pipeline.

At that moment, two oncoming trains Adler-Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk-Adler passed the accident site.

As a result of the explosion, both trains were completely destroyed, about 600 people died (there is still no exact data).

The investigation into the disaster initially went to officials from the Ministry of Gas Industry, to the highest-ranking managers, who demanded that the gas pipeline with numerous unfinished business be accepted.

But after a few months, the case was closed, and several builders appeared in court.

Participants: Borin Aleksandr Borisovich - writer, Trifonova Aleksandra Patrikeevna - train conductor, Ruddi German Ottovich - train passenger, Karimov Salavat - investigator, Smirnov Viktor - investigator, Mikheev Ivan Pavlovich - relative of the deceased girl.

Chronicle: The site of the train accident near Ufa, burnt documents, people's passports, a burned man on a hospital gurney, doctors performing an operation.

Film excerpts: The film "The Prize", an excerpt from the program "Time", speech by Gorbachev M.S., an excerpt from "News of the Day" construction of a gas pipeline".