Borki train disaster

Quand

29 oct. 1888

Type

Accident ferroviaire

Coordonnées

49.69° N, 36.13° E

Description

train wreck

Deaths

21

1888 event involving Alexander III of Russia

The Borki train disaster occurred on 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1888 near Borki station in Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire, 295 kilometres (183 mi) south of Kursk, when the imperial train carrying Emperor Alexander III of Russia and his family from Crimea to Saint Petersburg derailed at high speed. Twenty-one people died at the scene and two later, and many others were injured.

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