At the Crash Site

Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Ufa District, June, 1989. Twisted cars of two passenger trains "Novosibirsk-Adler" No. 211 and "Adler-Novosibirsk" No. 212 at the site of the largest railway accident that occurred on the night of June 3-4, as a result of an explosion from a hydrocarbon leak due to an accident on the Siberia-Ural pipeline passing nearby -Volga region. Charred earth and trees. Relatives of those killed at the scene of the tragedy, which claimed the lives of more than 500 people. Flowers on the ground. Press conference of members of the government commission with the relatives of the victims and the victims. At the podium: Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Gennady Georgievich Vedernikov, Minister of Health Anatoly Ivanovich Potapov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR Yuri Dmitrievich Zhurkin.

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A. Krasnoshein