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...
‘Chernobyl’ miniseries got many things wrong, – Petro Shavrey
"At first, I thought it would be a documentary. I was asked to express my opinion after I watched that film. I watched it...
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 -...
American Dr. Gale, Chornobyl Firefighters, Bone Marrow Transplants
Adam Higginbotham in his prize-winning Midnight in Chernobyl writes the following: "At forty, Gale was a hematologist at the UCLA Medical Center and a...
Chornobyl reactors could be switched to enriching plutonium for military purposes
"If anything, the military purpose of Chernobyl-2 is a reminder that the purpose of the Chernobyl power station was never entirely civilian, either. While...
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 Chornobyl. With 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...
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...
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 could not find...
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 28 years old...
