Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Chelyabinsk Region. Asha. Assistance to a child injured in a train accident on the Chelyabinsk-Ufa highway 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 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. Boris Klipinitser/TASS