Early morning crash involved Hyundai passenger bus and Mercedes Benz minibus.
Bus skidded off bridge and flipped in the air before landing on ice of river Kuenga.
Two buses in collision on highway linking Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
The vehicle with Orthodox pilgrims on board flipped into a ditch and overturned down an embankment, falling 'the height of a 5 storey building’.
Preliminary investigations suggest one of the drivers fell asleep before head-on smash.
Eyewitnesses speak of carnage after head-on collision with truck.
Acrobats from a sports club were killed after driver lost control in poor weather and hit oncoming truck.
Tributes to the dead and prayers for the 34 injured including 27 students, acrobats with a Nefteyugansk sports club.
Policeman Alexander Kosolapov fighting for life after instinctive bravery.