Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Bashkir ASSR. Ufa. The locomotive crew of the electric locomotive of a freight train, twenty-three-year-old assistant engineer Marat Ganeev and twenty-seven-year-old engineer Sergei Stolyarov (from left to right), who, together with the foreman of the Ashinskaya track section R. Egemgordiev, passenger train conductors S. Muratov and Kh. Dzhangozhizh, took about four hundred victims to a safe zone from the site 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 before the arrival of rescuers. 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. Viktor Vonog/TASS