Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Yusif Abulfatovich Amirosanov, a surgeon at the Burn Center of the A. V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery, in the cabin of an ambulance plane transporting seriously injured people to Moscow in 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. The disaster occurred on June 3, 1989, at 11:14 p.m. Moscow time, due to an explosion of liquefied gas following a leak in the Western Siberia-Urals-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. Andrei Solovyov/TASS