Memories of the Kurenivka tragedy

2005, National Television Company of Ukraine. The programme ‘Due to circumstances’ is dedicated to the tragic events of the Kurenivka tragedy on 13 March 1961. Hosted by Oleksandr Opanasenko.

In the video: screensavers, footage of Kyiv, stand-up journalism, eyewitness accounts, memories of Kazimir Bramsky, head of the production and technical department of Kyivpastrans, archival video footage of the aftermath of the tragedy, destroyed houses and buildings, the destroyed Krasin tram depot (now the Podil tram depot), archival materials on the aftermath of the flood in Zakarpattia.

Eyewitnesses: Nadiya Bezborodova, Vasyl Ponochovny, Olena Ruban.

Reference: The Kurenivka tragedy was a man-made disaster that occurred in Kyiv on 13 March 1961, when a stream of waste from brick factories broke through a dam in Babyn Yar and flooded one of the city's districts, Kurenivka. According to official data, 145 people died. During the Soviet period, the tragedy was hushed up.