Captain jailed
The captain of a Volga riverboat on which over 100 people died when it rammed a bridge has been jailed for 10 years for negligence, the newspaper “Sovietskaya Rossia” (Soviet Russia) reports. Vladimir Kleimenov, captain of the riverboat Alexander Suvorov, which ploughed into a railway bridge on a narrow stretch of the Volga near the city of Ulyanovsk in June, was found guilty of insufficient supervision of his crew. — Moscow.
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Press, 22 September 1983, Page 7
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