Anniversary of the train disaster in Bashkiria

USSR. Bashkir ASSR. Flowers and photographs at a mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the train disaster at the 1710th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian Railway at the mass grave of those killed at the site of the tragedy. 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 a kilometer from the railway tracks. According to official data, 575 people died in the accident, including 181 children, 623 people were injured. Viktor Vonog/TASS