Arzamas train disaster

Arzamas explosion, known also as Arzamas train disaster occurred on June 4, 1988, when three goods wagons transporting hexogen to Kazakhstan exploded on a railway crossing in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia).

Explosion of 118 tons of hexogen made a 26 metre deep crater (85 ft), caused major damage in the city, killing 91 people and injuring 1500. 151 buildings were destroyed.

External links

• Трагедия в Арзамасе

See also

• Ufa train disaster

Railway accidents in 1988 (1988) Location and date Forst Zinna, East Germany (19 January) Arzamas, Soviet Union (4 June) Paris, France (27 June) Ashtamudi Lake in Kollam, India (8 July) Clapham Junction, United Kingdom (12 December) 1987 1989

Coordinates: 55°24′43″N 43°47′14″E / 55.41194°N 43.78722°E / 55.41194; 43.78722