Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

June 5-7, 1989. USSR. Bashkir ASSR. Ufa. Chairman of the government commission, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Gennady Georgievich Vedernikov (right in the foreground) during the work of the commission for the elimination of the consequences of the derailment 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 accident occurred on June 3, 1989 at 23:14 Moscow time due to an explosion of liquefied gas due to a leak in the Western Siberia - Urals - Volga Region pipeline, laid one kilometer from the railway tracks. According to official data, 575 people died in the accident, including 181 children, 623 people were injured. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS