Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Bashkir ASSR. The crash site 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 due to an explosion of liquefied gas as a result of a leak in the Western Siberia - Urals - Volga Region pipeline one kilometer from the railway tracks. According to official data, 575 people died in the accident, including 181 children, 623 people were injured. Viktor Vonog, Andrei Solovyov/TASS