Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Moscow. Ambulances at Vnukovo Airport await a medical plane from Ufa with victims of the train crash in the Bashkir ASSR. 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, which was 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