The Kurenivka tragedy is a disaster that occurred in Kyiv on March 13, 1961, when a flow of waste from brick factories broke through the dam from Babyny Yar and covered one of the districts of Kyiv - Kurenivka. According to official data, 145 people died. During the Soviet period, the tragedy was hushed up, and the people of Kyiv did not believe in official statistics.
The video shows the story of the Kureniv tragedy, archival photos.
Interview: researcher of the history of Kyiv - Mykhailo Kalnytskyi, employee of the Kyiv History Museum - Tetyana Yevstafieva, witness of the tragedy - Volodymyr Poludenny.