This is a list of Russian rail accidents. 1882 13 July – Tcherny railway accident: a train was derailed near Tcherny, and more than 40 people killed. 1888 29 October – Borki train disaster: An imperial train carrying Alexander III derailed. 23 killed. 1905 October 6: At Rostov, a derailment of the mail train to Vladivostok killed 27 people and injured 35. 1917 August 13: A passenger train and a "luggage train" collide on the line from Moscow to Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), killing 60 people and injuring 150. November 2: At Vladikavkaz, an express passenger train and a military train collide head-on, killing 25 people (mostly soldiers) and severely injuring 70. 1920 October 1920: At Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai, the mail train from Vladivostok to Harbin, China wrecks killing about 100. 1921 January: On a mixed train from Novgorod, a consignment of flammable liquid explodes at Luga, killing 68 people. 1923 September 8: An express train derails at Omsk killing 82 and injuring 150. 1924 October: On the line from Moscow to Ivanovo and Vasenensk, a mixed train carrying passengers and gasoline is destroyed by fire. It was said that of 200 people on board only 27 survived, but the Soviet authorities suppressed the story. 1929 September 23: A train from Moscow to Siberia derails at Zuyevka, between Kursk and Kharkiv (now in Ukraine); at least 30 were killed. 1930 April 16: At Domodedovo, some denatured alcohol spilled in a train is accidentally ignited. The fire results in the deaths of 45 people and seriously injures 23. May 20: At Chernaya on the Moscow-Kazan line, the collision of a passenger and a freight train results in the deaths of 28 and severely injures 29. June 29: A train from Irkutsk to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is derailed near its destination due to a signalman's error; 22 die and 28 are seriously injured. 1931 September: A troop train southwest of Leningrad explodes with heavy loss of life. 1932 January 2: At Kosino, just outside Moscow, a train moving at hits the rear of a stopped suburban train. Although there is time, nobody acts to protect the wreckage and a train of empty freight wagons crashes into it. Altogether 68 people are killed and 130 injured, and 11 railwaymen are arrested for criminal negligence. October 18: Heavy loss of life occurs when the Black Sea express train, coming from Sochi, strikes a