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PEOPLE IN URALS REGION REMEMBERING VICTIMS OF HUGE RAILWAYS SISASTER
UFA, June 4 (Itar-Tass) - A Remembrance Train left the railway station of Ufa, capital of Russia's constituent region of Bashkiria in western Urals, at around 06:00 hours Moscow time Wednesday on a trip to the Ulu-Telyak station to mark the 19th anniversary of a major railway disaster that killed 575 people.
The party of passengers traveling to Ulu-Telyak includes relatives and friends of the victims, the workers who took part in eliminating the aftermath of ths disaster, officials of the regional Ministry for Emergency Situations and Interior Ministry, Air Force pilots, and physicians.
As the train reaches the 1710th kilometer of the railway line located between Ulu-Talyak and Asha stations, the party will lay flowers at a monument to the people who died in Jun 1989.
The program of commemorative events includes a civil remembranceceremony and religious remembranes services that will be conducted by the clergy representing denominations traditional for Bashkiria.
The tragic accident was caused by a leak of natural gas from the West Siberia-Urals-Volga Area pipeline, built along a route parallel to the railway.
An explosion of the hydrocarbon/air mix equivalent of 300 tons of the TNT occurred at the moment when two passenger trains from in the reverse directions entered the zone of gas contamination. The fire that broke out afterwards engulfed a land area of 250 hectares.
Investigators came to a conclusion later that the disaster was caused by a low quality of the tie-in section of a local oil product line.
A number of executives, most of them working in the construction industry were brought to trial and the court sentenced many of them tovarious jail terms.
A railway disaster will be in the center of remembrance events in the town of Arzamas, the Nizhny Novgorod region in the Volga area, where more than 90 people died in 1988.
In the nighttime of June 4, 1988, three carriages with more than 100 tons of industrial explosives blew up when a freight train was approaching the Arzamas-1 station.
The power of the explosion was so huge that it left a crater 26 meters deep and 53 meters in diameter.
More than 150 residential houses located near the railway weredestroyed and vital facilities in the town, severely damaged.
The tragedy carried away the lives of more than 90 people, including 14 children and more than a thousand residents of the town lost their housing.
The whole country helped Arzamas to heal its wounds then, as newhousing was built and assistance was provided to the orphaned children.
Civil and church remembrance ceremonies will be held at the site of the tragedy Wednesday and flowers will be laid at a memorial that carries the names of all the victims.
Nizhny Novgorod governor Valery Shantsev will take part in theceremonies.
The party of passengers traveling to Ulu-Telyak includes relatives and friends of the victims, the workers who took part in eliminating the aftermath of ths disaster, officials of the regional Ministry for Emergency Situations and Interior Ministry, Air Force pilots, and physicians.
As the train reaches the 1710th kilometer of the railway line located between Ulu-Talyak and Asha stations, the party will lay flowers at a monument to the people who died in Jun 1989.
The program of commemorative events includes a civil remembranceceremony and religious remembranes services that will be conducted by the clergy representing denominations traditional for Bashkiria.
The tragic accident was caused by a leak of natural gas from the West Siberia-Urals-Volga Area pipeline, built along a route parallel to the railway.
An explosion of the hydrocarbon/air mix equivalent of 300 tons of the TNT occurred at the moment when two passenger trains from in the reverse directions entered the zone of gas contamination. The fire that broke out afterwards engulfed a land area of 250 hectares.
Investigators came to a conclusion later that the disaster was caused by a low quality of the tie-in section of a local oil product line.
A number of executives, most of them working in the construction industry were brought to trial and the court sentenced many of them tovarious jail terms.
A railway disaster will be in the center of remembrance events in the town of Arzamas, the Nizhny Novgorod region in the Volga area, where more than 90 people died in 1988.
In the nighttime of June 4, 1988, three carriages with more than 100 tons of industrial explosives blew up when a freight train was approaching the Arzamas-1 station.
The power of the explosion was so huge that it left a crater 26 meters deep and 53 meters in diameter.
More than 150 residential houses located near the railway weredestroyed and vital facilities in the town, severely damaged.
The tragedy carried away the lives of more than 90 people, including 14 children and more than a thousand residents of the town lost their housing.
The whole country helped Arzamas to heal its wounds then, as newhousing was built and assistance was provided to the orphaned children.
Civil and church remembrance ceremonies will be held at the site of the tragedy Wednesday and flowers will be laid at a memorial that carries the names of all the victims.
Nizhny Novgorod governor Valery Shantsev will take part in theceremonies.
