Anniversary of the train disaster in Bashkiria

USSR. Bashkir ASSR. Relatives and friends of the victims of the train crash at the 1710th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian Railway, who arrived at the scene of the tragedy on the special train "Memory" from Chelyabinsk for the funeral ceremony on the anniversary of the accident. 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 23:14 Moscow time due to an explosion of liquefied gas due to a leak in the pipeline "Western Siberia - Urals - Volga Region", laid a kilometer from the railway tracks. According to official data, 575 people died in the accident, including 181 children, 623 people were injured. Viktor Vonog/TASS