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It's the evening of May 9, 2009 and the people of Moscow are celebrating Victory Day. But no fireworks can match the fantastic spectacle taking place on the ground: Namely an enormous explosion, the ...
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On the afternoon of July 26, 2008, two trains collide near St. Petersburg. Railway accidents tend to spike in Russia during the summertime, when more trains are pressed into service to accommodate peo...
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Moscow, it's the summer of 2002 and the city is coated with a thick haze of acrid black smoke. The smell is atrocious. The sun is barely visible in the mid day sky. Why? Because of a recent heatwave a...
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Summer peat fires not only destroyed houses but thick smoke from their fires was also responsible for decreased visibility on the roads, which in turn caused this seven car accident. Visibility was n...
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In 2001, due to a particularly cold winter, the Lena River had frozen almost all the way through. The ice at some places reached 25 to 30 feet thick, which was almost twice the norm. On the night of...
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It was already a wet Spring in the southern Russian republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia when a violent storm dumped a record breaking amount of rain on the region for three straight days in June of 200...
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And if all that water wasn't enough, Nevinnomyssk is again attacked from the sky! In just a few minutes, a short-lived but ferocious hail storm attacks the city with Pigeon-egg-sized hail balls, break...
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If Nevinnomyssk was suffering from too much water, authorities in Kamchatka were bracing for an onslaught of two of the other elements - earth and fire. Rescue squads had been on high alert for most ...
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And like a really atrocious houseguest who shows up unannounced, overstays her welcome and leaves your place completely trashed, Hurricane Flora blew into the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk one day i...
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In January of 2006, Muscovites could be forgiven for thinking they'd gone to sleep in their familiar city only to wake up the next morning in what felt like Antarctica. While heavily fortified resear...
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People in this southern Russian resort city had a similar, if less severe experience to their Moscow cousins. The same cold spell gave them a rare glimpse of winter, northern style. For the first time...
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In October of 1995, an unknown terrorist seizes a bus filled with South Korean tourists near the Kremlin in Moscow. Armed with a pistol and a bomb, he demands $10 million and an airplane to make his ...
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This is a story of home grown terrorists targeting the area around the Kremlin in Moscow. Late night, a young woman had tried to enter a restaurant on a central Moscow street. Something about her beha...
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Moscow. It’s August 8th, 2000, Rush hour, about two minutes to 6, in the crowded underground crossing of the Pushkinskaya subway station. It’s packed with people on their way home from work… when disa...
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On uneventful Spring morning, Vladivostok police get a tip that three men suspected in a brutal armed attack on local Chinese merchants are thought to be hiding in a nearby apartment building. Police ...
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Chernobyl nuclear plant. On the night of April 26th, 1986 there was a serious explosion at the 4th power unit of the plant. The explosion released an enormous amount of radiation into the air. To thi...
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It's June of 2001. And tragedy is in the air at the Levashovo Airfield near St. Petersburg. That morning, pilots of an elite squadron were preparing for an airshow performance. What they didn't know...
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September 15, 2008. A surveillance camera set up on the outskirts of the city of Perm captures the final seconds of the lives of the 87 passengers and crew members on a doomed airplane. The plane, en ...
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This grainy footage is from way back in 1973. That isn't the Concorde but the most recent Soviet-made airliner at the time taking off from the French airport of Le Bourget. At about 3600 feet, the air...
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Plane crash
Theory of Catastrophes
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Flash forward to August of 2008. This footage was shot using a cell phone camera just a few seconds after yet another disastrous plane crash. An airliner sends out a distress signal, then disappears f...
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July 9th, 2002. If, somehow, you’d forgotten how seriously most of the world takes its World Cup soccer (or football) matches, let this be a reminder of how not to make a little extra money. On July 9...
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Backtrack 8 years earlier to August of 2000 and another landmark Moscow fire. Overheated cables catch fire in the antenna section of the Ostankino (ah-STAN-keeno) TV tower, which, at 1772 feet, is the...
