What the records say
- When
- 24 Jan 1944
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 53.67° N, 34.39° E
- Description
- railway catastrophy in USSR in 1944
- Deaths
- 600
Vereshchyovka train disaster
Railway catastrophy in USSR in 1944
The Vereshchyovka train disaster was a railway accident that occurred near Vereshchyovka in Oryol Oblast, Soviet Union on 24 January 1944. Sources estimate that over 600 people died in the wreck, making it the deadliest train disaster in Soviet and Russian history.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “У станции Верещёвка в Брянской области произошла железнодорожная катастрофа”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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