Consequences
The original plant was totally destroyed and later its lot was covered by a housing estate. The workshops built in 1915-1916 developed into the modern Kazan Gunpowder Plant.
During Soviet rule the official explanation of the explosion was based not on negligence, but on a diversion of counter-revolutionary movements. Allegedly they destroyed a plant to blame the proletariat in collaboration with Germany and vindicate terror against the workers.
To this day some unexploded shells are found on the banks of the Volga; however, some of them could be attributed to 1918 warfare.
Read more about this topic: 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant Fire
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