Chornobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through...

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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

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Yurii Shcherbak's first major literary work 'Chernobyl' was published in the USSR in 1986 already. Starting the following year, it was...

Five Myths About Chornobyl, – Washington Post

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"More than three decades ago, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian republic of the Soviet...

Not canceling 1986 May Parade in Kyiv just 4 days after the Chornobyl Disaster...

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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...

Moscow knew of Chornobyl NPP seious deficiencies in the third and fourth reactors, but...

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 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...

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"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:...

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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

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The National Bank of Ukraine provides a description of the numismatic coin:

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