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A [[1994 Vanavara air disaster|plane crash]] occurred on September&nbsp;26, 1994, when a plane flying from [[Krasnoyarsk]] to [[Tura, Krasnoyarsk Krai|Tura]] had diverted to Vanavara Airport due to bad weather: on running out of fuel the crew then attempted an emergency landing on the bank of the Chamba River 41&nbsp;km from Vanavara centre. All twenty-four passengers and four crew died in the crash.<ref>{{cite web|title=Disaster Yak-40|url=http://www.airdisaster.ru/database.php?id=92|publisher=Accidents, incidents and crashes in the Soviet Union and Russia|access-date=August 13, 2013|language=ru}}</ref>
 
On December&nbsp;10, 2010, an explosion occurred in a boiler in the heating plant in Vanavara. A fireman was killed in the incident and heating was cut off for 720&nbsp;houses, forcing the temporary evacuation of many children to Krasnoyarsk.<ref>{{cite news|last=Белькович|first=Светлана|script-title=ru:Котельная взорвалась в посёлке в Красноярском крае, погиб кочегар|url=http://ria.ru/incidents/20101210/306769113.html|access-date=August 13, 2013|newspaper=РИА Новости|date=December 10, 2010|language=ru}}</ref> Heating has since been fully restored.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Теплоснабжение полностью восстановлено в красноярском посёлке Ванавара|url=http://ria.ru/society/20110116/322228852.html|access-date=August 13, 2013|newspaper=РИА Новости|date=January 16, 2011|language=ru}}</ref>
 
==Transportation==