The Soviet authorities concealed three large-scale disasters

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In the Soviet Union, there was one very strange, and in fact, sad tendency - not to publicize really large-scale serious problems. And accidents now and then happened in a wide variety of industries. Passenger traffic was no exception. There have been at least three terrible disasters that the authorities have chosen to keep quiet about.

1979 collision

Two planes collided in the sky.

In 1979, a truly monstrous incident took place in the sky over Dneprodzerzhinsk. Two Tu-134 passenger aircraft collided in the sky. The cause of the tragedy was the air traffic controller, who, as the investigation later found out, was a young employee. It was the lack of experience and negligence of the airport employee that caused the collision. The crash killed 178 passengers. In this incident, no one survived. For a long time, the authorities preferred to hide what happened in the sky near Dneprodzerzhinsk.

1981 disaster

Another terrible event.

Another major tragedy in heaven happened just two years after Dneprodzerzhinsk. In 1981, in the skies over Leningrad, the Tu-104 plane had problems. The command of the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Union was on board. There were 6 admirals among 52 passengers. Subsequently, it turned out that the cause of the breakdown was the overload of the aircraft, the military loaded too many things on board, as a result of which the aircraft fell and crashed. It is curious that the crew of the plane knew about this (as established by the investigation), but did not say anything against the high-ranking officers.

Collision of 1983

Terrible disaster.

Two more years later, a tragic event occurred, but also somewhat funny, no matter how cynical it may sound. In 1983, the motor ship "Alexander Suvorov" crashed into the bridge span and cut off a significant part of its own hull. The disaster killed 600 people! At the time of the collision with the bridge, a freight train was also walking along it, from which cargo began to pour onto the ship. The sad irony is that for some reason the ship tried to pass under a bridge that was absolutely not intended for this. This is how human negligence can take several hundred lives. Makes you think about the level of responsibility, doesn't it?