46 years to a feat of the Nizhny Novgorod firemen on Sormovsky oil depot

This day in 1977 24 employees of Gorky fire protection and 9 people of crew personnel of vessels accepted the last fiery battle at fire extinguishing on the TN-602 tanker. Injuries and got burns of varying severity 28 people. Then explosion and a fiery hurricane up to 50 meters high dared on the way of a design of the ship and threw out boiling gasoline on the deck, the mooring barge and the river – water "burned". The tanker broke off on two half, its fodder part plunged into water. Walls of the third cargo tank weighing more than three tons were rejected on the abrupt coast on distance of 25 meters, the second tank...