What the records say
- When
- 19 Mar 2007
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 54.12° N, 87.30° E
- Description
- mining accident at the Ulyanovskaya coal mine in Russia in 2007
- Deaths
- 110
Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster
2007 methane explosion in the Ulyanovskaya longwall coal mine, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia
The Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster was caused by a methane explosion that occurred on March 19, 2007, in the Ulyanovskaya longwall coal mine in the Kemerovo Oblast. At least 108 people were reported to have been killed by the blast, which occurred at a depth of about 270 meters (885 feet) at 10:19 local time. The mine disaster was Russia's deadliest in more than a decade.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “взрыв метана на угольной шахте «Ульяновская» в Кемеровской области”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page