Chornobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through...
Lelechenko is a beautiful Ukrainian last name because it derives from the Ukrainian word leleka which in English means stork. Unfortunately, many popular accounts...
Chornobyl firefighters at Kyiv clinic with their doctors
Yurii Shcherbak's first major literary work 'Chernobyl' was published in the USSR in 1986 already. Starting the following year, it was...
Not canceling 1986 May Parade in Kyiv just 4 days after the Chornobyl Disaster...
Adam Higginbotham in his prize-winning Midnight in Chernobyl writes the following: “On Wednesday, April 30—the eve of the annual May Day celebrations, which...
Five Myths About Chornobyl, – Washington Post
"More than three decades ago, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian republic of the Soviet...
Moscow knew of Chornobyl NPP seious deficiencies in the third and fourth reactors, but...
Ukrainian KGB warned Moscow about the state of the station. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2965375.stm
In his first TV address on Chornobyl on May 14, 1986, Gorbachev officially denied...
"At 1:23 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, 1986, a bit more than 90 miles from Kyiv (and near the city’s main water reservoir),...
The Slavs originated in the area of the Pripyat River in Ukraine, – ‘Manhunt:...
Per IMBD, the Manhunt: Unabomber series focuses on the FBI agent, a highly specialized linguist, who using unconventional means brought Ted Kaczynski, aka...
Black Stork Coin Commemorating the 38th Anniversary of Chornobyl
The National Bank of Ukraine provides a description of the numismatic coin:
Ukrainian Dr. Kindzelsky saved Chornobyl Firefighters at Kyiv Hospital using his method of treatment....
Not many people know that there was a second group of firefighters who were sent to Kyiv Hospital. It is extremely...
