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From the KGB archive: “On the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and in the 30-kilometer zone”

The KGB Directorate for the city of Kiev and the Kiev region takes the necessary measures to ensure reliable control over the situation

The Chernobyl accident: radiation impact on nature and animals

This article attempts to answer the most complex questions related to the problem of radioactive pollution of the environment as a result of

On the situation in Ivankov district in connection with the Chernobyl accident

On April 27, 1986, about 8 thousand residents of Pripyat were evacuated to Ivankovo district in connection with the accident at the Chernobyl

Initial efforts to minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl accident

The situation that developed at the destroyed 4th power unit in particular, and at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as a whole, required

The Chernobyl NPP: will Kobzon arrive?

On June 26, 1986, just two months after the Chernobyl disaster, People’s Artist of the USSR Joseph Kobzon was supposed to give a

Chernobyl: Hunger strike in a hospital ward

A state of emergency is not of a local scale – this is what the eighteen liquidators of the consequences of the accident

Radioactive business or “every penny’s got to be”

The beginning of the 2000s became full of “very entrepreneurial ideas” for the gray routine of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Creative business, based

Broken lives – time doesn’t heal

The movement of time is swift. Life goes forward, leaving behind the years and accumulated experience. As if very recently the fatal explosions

Agricultural Chernobyl

The verdict of the 2nd All-Union Scientific and Technical Conference, which summed up the preliminary results of the work to eliminate the consequences

Cleaning of the 3-rd Chernobyl power unit: a broom, a bucket with a rag and a shovel

On September 18, 1986, a commission of the USSR Ministry of Defense arrived in Chernobyl. The purpose of the visit was to resolve