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 of the Chornobyl...
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 would fill the...
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 translated into many...
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 Union exploded. A...
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), an explosion blew...
Moscow knew of Chornobyl NPP seious deficiencies in the third and fourth reactors, but...
"April 22, 2003. Secret KGB archives released in Ukraine show that there were problems with the Chornobyl nuclear plant before the 1986 explosion -...
Leonid Shavrey received the highest radiation dosage among all Chornobyl Firefighters. He survived thanks...
Per Wikipedia page, Leonid M. Shavrey was a Firefighter from the nuclear power plant's fire station (ВПЧ-2). Leonid was among the first firemen to...
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 sad that the...
Moscow knew of Chornobyl Fourth Reactor flaws before the Test, – secret KGB Archives...
Yuriy Shcherbak, a Ukrainian Doctor of Medicine and writer became known internationally because of his documentary novel about the Chornobyl tragedy. His "Chornobyl" which contains...
