How it was №1 03.04.2001 (2001)

Reconstruction of the events of June 5, 1983. At 9:40 p.m., the passenger liner Alexander Suvorov collided with the truss of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge.

The truss cut off the upper deck of the ship, where the cinema and dance floor were located.

Most of the passengers at that time were there.

Viktor Bekh tells about his feelings after the collision of the ship.

At that time, he was in the cabin.

Interview with doctor Rostislav Vasitsky - one of the first who began to provide assistance to the victims.

Recalls the events, points out that there was a ban on the dissemination of any information about what happened.

Nadezhda Kuzennaya, who provided assistance to the wounded, talks about the scale of the disaster.

Vladimir Mironov was the first to receive a message about the collision at the police control panel.

Talks about the evacuation of the wounded and those who ended up in the water.

When the collision occurred, a freight train was passing across the bridge.

The train carriages turned over and grain (and, according to some accounts, logs) began to pour out of them, burying the people who fell out of the ship.

Alexander Maslov talks about the organization of the evacuation of the wounded.

What problems did the district authorities have to face.

Photos of the Alexander Suvorov steamship before and after the disaster - the upper deck is missing.

Photos of the railway bridge and the overturned carriages.

Photos of the dead.

A graphic reconstruction of the events.

Viktor Bekh shows photos taken with a tourist group - participants in an excursion on the ship before the disaster.

Most of them died.

Vladimir Mironov says that the exact number of wounded could not be determined, since many were on the ship unofficially - without tourist vouchers.

An interview with Tamara Sorokina, a patient of one of the Ulyanovsk hospitals.

Tells the story of one of the victims, who miraculously survived.

The man went down from the upper deck to the cabin for cigarettes.

The ship's helmsman and first mate were found guilty of the disaster.

It is noted that in 1983 the water level in the Volga was at its highest.

Interview with Grigory Botsula, who lost his wife in the disaster and never found her remains.

Video footage: mourning events in 2000 on the banks of the Volga in the Ulyanovsk region, at the site of the disaster for those killed in 1983.