Vasily Ignatenko, one of the Chornobyl firefighters to die in May, 1986
Sergeant Vasily Ignatenko was a member of the Third Watch of Paramilitary Fire Station Number Six in Pripyat and was only...
Moscow knew of Chornobyl Fourth Reactor flaws before the Test, – secret Archives show
BBC NEWS April 2203: "Secret KGB archives released in Ukraine show that there were problems with the Chornobyl nuclear plant before...
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...
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...
Anatoly Dyatlov was pressured by Moscow to proceed with the Chornobyl experiment right before...
In 2011, Fakty-Ukraine published an interview with Boris Gorbachev, a nuclear physicist from Kyiv. In it, he says the following: "I...
Leonid Shavrey received the highest radiation dosage among all Chornobyl Firefighters. He survived thanks...
Per the Wikipedia page, Leonid M. Shavrey was a Firefighter from the nuclear power plant's fire station (ВПЧ-2). Leonid was among...
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
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...
Valery Khodemchuk: the first victim of Chornobyl disaster and for whom Reactor #4 became...
Valery Khodemchuk was born on 24 March 1951 in the village of Kropyvnia which is almost exactly halfway between Kyiv and...
