Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Bashkir ASSR. Ufa. Medical equipment engineer Frank Bechanan and head of dialysis operations at the Minneapolis Renal Center Allan Collins (left to right) who arrived from the United States with artificial kidney machines donated by American industrialist and public figure Armand Hammer for the victims of the crash of two oncoming passenger trains #211 Novosibirsk - Adler and #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 11:14 p.m. Moscow time due to an explosion of liquefied gas due to a leak in the Western Siberia - Ural - Volga Region pipeline, which was 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. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS