There was no time to bury the dead. The bodies were taken out of houses and left in the yards - almost all of them were sick. This is how the veterans remembered the terrible plague that swept through the village of Nizhnya in Transbaikal in the 1930s. According to surviving evidence, 380 children died within two weeks. The cause was said to be pollution of the Onda River, and Japanese saboteurs were suspected in the incident. What is known about the tragedy almost a century later. Stories in "Max".

There was no time to bury the dead. The bodies were taken out of houses and left in the yards - almost all of them were sick. This is how the veterans remembered the terrible plague that swept through the village of Nizhnya in Transbaikal in the 1930s. According to surviving evidence, 380 children died within two weeks. The cause was said to be pollution of the Onda River, and Japanese saboteurs were suspected in the incident. What is known about the tragedy almost a century later. Stories in "Max".