  The discovery of GW signal from merging neutron stars by LIGO on 17th August
2017 was followed by a short GRB170817A discovered by FERMI and INTEGRAL 1.7
seconds after the loss of the GW signal when it just reached its maximum. Here
we present a reproduction of the first paper (published by us in 1984)
predicting a short GRB after GW signal of merging neutron stars. Our paper
followed the scenario by Clark and Eardley (1977) who predicted a catastrophic
disruption of a neutron star in a binary 1.7 seconds after the peak of GW
signal. Our next paper in 1990 predicted all the main properties of the short
GRB with quite a reasonable accuracy. Typos in English translation are
corrected and a few comments are added in the current publication as numbered
footnotes (the only footnote from the original paper is marked by an asterisk).
