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Chernobyl: life on the ashes

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred on the night of April 26, 1986. After the explosion, the fire in the

Chernobyl: a moment before the disaster

The night of the 25 to 26 April 1986. The drag of dreams and anticipation of the long-awaited weekend surrounds the city of

The fate of the Chernobyl liquidators

More than 200 people, residents of Lozovaya, the Kharkiv region, liquidated the consequences of the accident at the ChNPP. Lozovaya residents have already

Chernobyl and the KGB: “archival documents revived”

The construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant started in May 1970. A city department of the KGB for Kiev and the Kiev

We went to the Chernobyl NPP not to portray suffering, but to carry out the tasks of the state

34 years since the explosion at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is a long time. It may seem

Destroyed space: did an accident or a disaster occur at the ChNPP?

An analysis of the situation in which people live in areas contaminated with radiation does not cause optimism. Scientists assure that the system

Chernobyl: “They were called “white suicide bombers”. None of them survived … ”

On April 26, 1986, the largest man-made accident in the history of mankind took place in Chernobyl. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl

M. Gorbachev: the Chernobyl accident gave rise to environmental nationalism

Mikhail Gorbachev first visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on February 23, 1989, almost three years after the disaster. He never explained why

Corruption Zone: who needs Chernobyl forests?

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 260,000 hectares of land, 70% of which are forests. Clearing and selling them has long been a business,

My signature is on the acts of commissioning the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

From the memoirs of engineer Boris Vasilchenko: “… In 1972-1985, I, as a state labor safety inspector, supervised the construction and operation of