Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Chelyabinsk Region. Asha. Preparation for surgery on a victim of the Chelyabinsk-Ufa railway accident in the Central City Hospital. 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. Boris Klipinitser/TASS