All-Union mourning for those killed in the train crash in Bashkiria

USSR. Moscow. The flag is lowered at half-mast on the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the All-Union mourning for the victims of 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. The disaster 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 near the railway tracks. According to official data, 575 people died in the accident, including 181 children, and 623 people were injured. Igor Zotin/TASS