Railroad disaster following gas pipeline explosion in Bashkiria

USSR. Bashkir ASSR. A burnt-out carriage at the site of 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 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-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, Valentin Kuzmin/TASS