List of Russian rail accidents

This is a list of Russian rail accidents.

1882

1888

1987

1988

  • 19 January – Forst Zinna rail disaster: a Soviet tank in Forst Zinna, East Germany gets stuck on a level crossing and is hit by express train, 6 killed, 33 are injured.
  • 4 June – Arzamas train disaster: Three goods wagons carrying a total of 118 tons of hexogen (RDX) exploded on a railway crossing in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), 91 killed and 1500 injured.
  • 16 August – Bologoye derailment occurred express train "Avrora", 31 killed.

1989

  • 4 June – Ufa train wreck: Natural gas leaking from a pipeline is ignited by wheel sparks from two trains traveling near the site of the leak; the resulting explosion killed 575 and injured 700 in one of the worst railway accidents in Soviet and Russian history.

1992

  • 3 March – Podsosenka train disaster: A passenger train inbound from Riga to Moscow failed to stop at a red signal and collided with an oncoming freight train at Podsosenka station near Nelidovo, Tver Oblast; the collision started a fire which spread to the passenger cars; 43 people killed and 108 injured.

1996

2006

  • 12 January – A collision between a bus and a train in Russia killed 22 people and badly injured another 6. All the victims were workers at a factory on their way home aboard the bus, which was almost unrecognisable after the crash. Police say the accident happened at an unpatrolled railway level crossing in Krasnodar. The train's engine car derailed but no-one on the train was hurt.[2]
  • 18 September – A collision between stations Ikorets and Bityug (Voronezh Oblast), between freight train 3040 moving backward without control with train 2104, stopped at red signal behind. 43 freight cars fully damaged. No one was hurt.

2014

See also

References

  1. Траурные дни в России (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 2007-03-21.
  2. AP, AFP (January 13, 2006). "Some 22 Killed When Russian Train Collides With Bus". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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