Explosion sorting Bashny.Net

The explosion at the station Sverdlovsk-sorting - emergency, which occurred early in the morning October 4, 1988 in the city of Sverdlovsk (USSR). A train carrying explosives (46, 8 tons of TNT, 40 tons of RDX) rolled down the slope and crashed into a standing freight train on the tracks with coal. Due to the short circuit at 02:33 there was an explosion, a large warehouse usugublёnny proximity of fuels and lubricants. The funnel at the blast site has reached a diameter of 40 m and a depth of 8 m, the shock wave spread to 10-15 kilometers.





The blast killed four people and injured about 500 people. A large number of families living in the surrounding areas of private buildings, were left homeless. Fluke svedshey casualties to a minimum, was that most of the residential buildings near the epicenter of the explosion was a log type.

Through the efforts of the railway troops passenger traffic was restored after 4 hours after the explosion. Jobs sorting systems was restored on October 7 in 20 hours and 15 minutes. After the liquidation of the consequences of the explosion the area became a place of mass housing development. The event in the on became known as the explosion at the sorting.

At dawn on the picture that day - black smoke in the sky over the city.



The only character remaining from the 'peaceful' life were the remains of a pedestrian bridge.



Many wooden houses were completely destroyed



Some of the houses was in such a state



Shattered windows in homes of all surrounding areas



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Rumor has it that at the time of the wagons of the explosion scattered within a radius of several kilometers.
Witnesses claimed that in one of the courtyards of the district found Sort shattered
wheel on the wagon table tennis. And in the doorway beaten on the 9th floor of a house window, flew
shapeless mass of oil allegedly ejected from the epicenter to the fuel depot.
Perhaps the area that same fuel depot



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