Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

June 4-7, 1989. USSR. Bashkir ASSR. Ufa. Engine driver of train #212 Viktor Vasilyevich Bezverkhiy, who was the first to report the disaster, and medical service lieutenant colonel V. Ye. Demidov from Leningrad (from left to right) in the burn center at City Clinical Hospital #18. The derailment of two oncoming passenger trains #211 Novosibirsk - Adler and #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 - Ural - Volga Region pipeline, 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. The exact date of the shooting has not been established. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS