Dear readers! We present to you a new book from the “Golden Series” library of the newspaper “Secrets of the 20th Century” - “The Age of Disasters.” Chernobyl. The name of this city has long become a household name. What happened during and after the disaster? Eyewitnesses testify. One hundred years have passed since the sinking of the Titanic, but the tragedy of the liner and its passengers still haunts researchers. In addition to the Titanic, hundreds of thousands of ships rest on the bottom of the World Ocean. The section “This Terrible Sea” is dedicated to the most terrible maritime disasters. We live on a powder keg. Every year, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides and avalanches claim thousands of lives. These terrible events are told in two sections of the book. The last section is devoted to the human factor. Greed, stupidity or simply carelessness of one person can cause the death of many people.