Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Moscow. Design engineer of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. I. Kozhukhovsky donating blood at the blood transfusion station on Polikarpov Street for the victims of the Chelyabinsk-Ufa railway disaster. 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, and 623 people were injured. Valery Zufarov/TASS