A dam burst in Kiev (8 photos)

In 1961 tons of mud and water, breaking through a dam, rushed to the densely populated area Kurenivka. The monstrous avalanche of wet soil width of about 20 meters and a height of about 14 rolled on Frunze Street, sweeping away everything in its path. Just a few minutes under a three-meter layer of buried homes, shuttle buses and tram park.
40 years of this tragedy did not know much, but the fact of the disaster was strictly kept secret KGB. According to official statistics, the victims of the element was 145 people, but historians and scientists lead a completely different figures - about a thousand dead. Similarly, no one knows - and does not know ever since the investigation into the cause of the tragedy was held in high security mode, and the materials of the criminal case, instigated on the facts of the case in Kurenyovka, were destroyed at the expiration of the statute of limitations.
The cause of the accident were identified errors in the design of the dam.