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    Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in...
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    "clean up" medal was given to the clean-up workers, known as "liquidators". Liquidators worked under deplorable conditions, poorly informed and with poor...
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    Union of Chernobyl Liquidators, and the WHO's Radiation Protection Programme argue that both the perilous conditions in which the liquidators worked and...
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    lethal". In 2006, the Union Chernobyl, the main organization of liquidators, stated that 10% of the 600,000 liquidators were dead, and 165,000 disabled...
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    Valery Legasov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    List of Heroes of the Russian Federation Chernobyl liquidators Effects of the Chernobyl disaster List of Chernobyl-related articles Nuclear and radiation...
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    demolition of the original sarcophagus, which was hastily constructed by Chernobyl liquidators after a beyond design-basis accident destroyed the reactor. The...
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  • Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed....
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    corium beneath Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine. The mass formed during the Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986 from...
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    Vasily Ignatenko (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    1986) was a Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster. He worked as an electrician before being conscripted into the...
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    alleged 'Blackbird of Chernobyl' The video game Chornobyl Liquidators, released in 2024, puts players in the role of a liquidator immediately following...
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  • "Black pain" monument in Zhytomyr Chernobyl liquidators List of Chernobyl-related articles "Sequence of Events – Chernobyl Accident Appendix 1 - World Nuclear...
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  • Leonid Toptunov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    reactor control chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. Leonid Toptunov...
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    Anatoly Dyatlov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    deputy chief engineer for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. He supervised the safety test which resulted in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, for which he served...
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    Aleksandr Akimov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. Aleksandr Akimov...
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  • Viktor Bryukhanov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    December 1935 – 13 October 2021) was the manager of construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the director of the plant from 1970 to 1986. Bryukhanov...
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  • Igor Kostin (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    Chernobyl nuclear plant site and Reactor 4 along with the liquidators. He would return multiple times in an attempt to document as much of Chernobyl as...
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  • Valery Bespalov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    September 1957) is an engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. After the Chernobyl disaster, he was one of the three men in the "suicide...
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  • Leonid Telyatnikov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    notable for his role in directing the early stages initial response to the Chernobyl disaster. Telyatnikov served many years as an officer in both Soviet and...
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    schools. In the Chernobyl zone, there is one operating Eastern Orthodox church, St. Elijah Church. According to Chernobyl disaster liquidators, the radiation...
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  • Monument to Those Who Saved the World (category Chernobyl disaster)
    dedicated to the Chernobyl liquidators who cleaned up after the accident. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Memorial to Chernobyl firemen. "They saved...
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    Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Russian: Чернобыльская молитва, romanized: Chernobylskaya molitva, lit. 'Chernobyl Prayer')...
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    Volodymyr Pravyk (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    (1986) Order of Lenin (1986) Ukraine's Order for Courage (1996) Chernobyl liquidators Tkachuk 2011 "Правик Владимир Павлович". warheroes.ru. Archived...
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  • film centres on a fictionalised firefighter who becomes a liquidator during the Chernobyl disaster. The film was released in Russia by Central Partnership...
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  • series The Liquidator (Darkwing Duck), fictional character in television animation Chernobyl liquidators, disaster-remediation workers Liquidator, a member...
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    Boris Baranov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    6 April 2005) was an engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and a Chernobyl liquidator. As a liquidator, he and two others were sent to drain...
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    Mykola Melnyk (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    Soviet-Ukrainian pilot and liquidator hero known for his high-risk helicopter mission on the dangerously-radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant building...
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    Boris Shcherbina (category People associated with the Chernobyl disaster)
    particularly in Tyumen Oblast. In 1986, he was appointed head of the Chernobyl commission to investigate the cause of the disaster and oversee its management...
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  • Nikolai Tarakanov (category Chernobyl liquidators)
    волне интереса к трагедии" ["The film was shot brilliantly." The liquidator of the Chernobyl accident on the HBO series and the wave of interest in the tragedy]...
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    government began evacuating the residents of both Chernobyl and Pripyat in preparation for the liquidators' management of the disaster. Following their subsequent...
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    compares the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents. Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster List...
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