The worst river disaster of Russia
On June 5, 1983, the new cruise ship "Alexander Suvorov", which was performed by a flight from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow, crashed into the flight of the railway bridge near Ulyanovsk. The upper deck was cut off. According to official figures, 176 people were killed - more than a third of passengers. The collapse of Suvorov has become the largest river disaster in the history of the USSR and modern Russia. How a human mistake led to a terrible tragedy - in the section of the " cold " "disaster".