Chornobyl Firefighters in Moscow Died Because of Wrong Medical Treatment, – Petro Shavrey
Petro Shavrey was one of the three legendary brothers who participated in liquidating the fires on April 26 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant....
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 sad that the...
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...
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 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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
