"Bulgaria" Ship Disaster’s Third Anniversary. We Grieve and Remember!

Today, relatives and friends of the victims, as well as those who participated in the aftermath liquidation of one of the biggest disasters on the water in the modern history of Russia gathered at the memorial complex on Volga coast in Syukeyevo village of Kamsko-Ustyinsky District. The tragedy occurred exactly three years ago. Ship "Bulgaria" crashed three kilometers from the coast during a storm on the Kuibyshev impoundment.

Assistant to President of RT, Ravil Muratov, head of Volga Regional Center, Igor Panshin, and Head of the Headquarters of MES of Russia in the Republic of Tatarstan, Rafis Habibullin, arrived to pay tribute to the victims of the shipwreck near Kama Mouth.

At the end of the meeting, the participants laid flowers to the memorial stele with the names of the dead. A moment of silence was held in the memory of the victims, and a ship's horn sounded over the river as a sign of mourning, funeral garland was lowered on the water.

The memorial was opened at the first anniversary of the tragedy a few kilometers from the crash site. It includes a memory wall with the names of 122 passed away passengers and crew members of "Bulgaria", as well as a chapel church and a mosque.

Recalling the double-decked diesel motor ship "Bulgaria" built in 1955 in Czechoslovakia, sank on July 10, 2011 in Tatarstan, 3 kilometers from the coast. 201 people were on the board at the time of the crash. 122 people died, 79 rescued.

More than 500 personnel and 80 technical units from MES of Russia were involved in the disaster liquidation.