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The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on 4 June 1989, in Iglinsky District, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, when an explosion killed 575 people and injured 800 more. [1]
The following are some alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Russia: The Tunguska event of 1908, is considered to have been the explosion of a meteor, though some regard it as an explosion of a UFO. The Petrozavodsk phenomenon on September 20, 1977.
An imperial train carrying Alexander III of Russia derailed. Alexander III of Russia was not injured Valga train disaster 1 May 1897 Valga: 58 ~100 Derailment A military train was derailed. The cause of the crash was the erosion of the embankment by heavy rain and too high speed 1 August 1905 Zima station (Irkutsk Oblast) 20+ 80 Derailment
Soviet militsiya officer's cap cockade (service/parade version).. The name militsiya as applied to police forces originates from a Russian Provisional Government decree dated April 17, 1917, and from early Soviet history: both the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks intended to associate their new law-enforcement authority with the self-organisation of the people and to distinguish it ...
The Soviet Scientific Commission ordered an inquiry into the alleged incident. According to Paul Kurtz writing in a 1990 volume of Skeptical Inquirer, the scientists in the Soviet Union who had studied the evidence included members of the "Voronezh Amateur Section for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena", who visited the site a week after the alleged event and used "a form of ESP dowsing".
This week, 35 years ago, the Czech government buckled under the mounting pressure of its people. In mid-November, student protestors had ignited a revolutionary fervour on the cold streets of ...
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...
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