Word: ufa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ufa Mayor Mikhail A. Zaitsev said many injured were transported to his city, 60 miles west of the remote accident site in the Ural Mountains...
...pipeline containing liquefied petroleum gas exploded at 1:14 a.m. as the trains passed each other on opposite tracks between the towns of Ufa and Asha, 745 miles southeast of Moscow, Tass said. The news agency said gas seeped from the conduit and caught fire, but it was not clear what caused the leak...
What was extraordinary was that the report on the hijack attempt, which took place in the city of Ufa, 740 miles east of Moscow, was carried on Soviet television. Apparently part of Mikhail Gorbachev's new "open" information policy, which has come to include reports of accidents and disasters, the broadcast alluded to the Soviet Union's drug problem, which government officials until recently have tried to play down...