freight car that had been mistakenly switched to the express tracks at Lublinov station, eleven kilometers from Moscow, telescoping five cars, three of them passenger coaches. Casualties include 36 killed and 51 injured. On October 31, the Soviet government sentences to death the station master whose negligence caused the accident. Three others also sharing responsibility receive prison terms. 1934 March 4: At a station from Moscow, a stationary train is struck by another one, killing 19 and injuring 52. The enginemen of the second train are sentenced to death and three other railwaymen to prison. March 12: At Tavatuy, northwest of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), a passenger train runs past signals and crashes into a freight; 33 are killed and 68 injured. 1935 January 6: At Porbelo on the railway from Leningrad to Moscow, an express from Leningrad to Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia) is stopped by a broken rail. The following train, an express to Moscow, runs past signals and crashes into it, killing 23 and badly injuring 56. Seven railwaymen are convicted of criminal negligence. 1936 June 22: At Karymskoye, a train is allowed to set out while the track ahead is occupied. The rear-end collision kills 51 people and injures 52; the stationmaster is sentenced to death and eight other people to prison. 1962 May 10: Two crowded commuter trains collided on National Railway Day while one of them was stopped at a junction in the north part of Moscow. Foreign newspapermen and diplomats living nearby reported seeing scores of ambulances, but Soviet authorities imposed a cover-up. 1987 7 August – Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster: A freight train collided with standing passenger train in Kamenskaya station, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast, killing 106. 1988 4 June – Arzamas train disaster: Three goods wagons carrying a total of 118 tons of hexogen (RDX) exploded on a railway crossing in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), 91 killed and 1500 injured. 16 August – Bologoye derailment occurred express train "Avrora", 31 killed. 1989 4 June – Ufa train wreck: Natural gas leaking from a pipeline is ignited by wheel sparks from two trains traveling near the site of the leak; the resulting explosion killed 575 and injured 700 in one of the worst railway accidents in Soviet and Russian history. 1992 3 March – Podsosenka train disaster: A passenger train inbound from Riga to Moscow failed to stop at a red signal and