Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Novosibirsk. City residents at the lists of those hospitalized in Ufa, Chelyabinsk and Kuibyshev hospitals at the headquarters for the liquidation of the consequences of the railway disaster in the Bashkir ASSR. 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 on June 3, 1989 at 23:14 Moscow time occurred as a result of 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. Anatoly Polyakov/TASS