Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Moscow. I. V. Tyutyunik, administrator of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic, donating blood at a blood transfusion station on Polikarpov Street for victims of the Chelyabinsk-Ufa railway disaster. The crash of two oncoming passenger trains, No. 211 Novosibirsk-Adler and No. 212 Adler-Novosibirsk, on the Ulu-Telyak-Asha section of the Kuibyshev Railway in the Iglinsky District occurred on June 3, 1989 at 11:14 p.m. Moscow time due to an explosion of liquefied gas due to a leak in the Western Siberia-Urals-Volga Region pipeline, laid one kilometer from the railway tracks. According to official data, 575 people died in the accident, including 181 children, and 623 people were injured. Valery Zufarov/TASS