People
15 entries in the Chernobyl Disaster compendium.
Oleksiy AnanenkoUkrainian engineer who helped drain the pools beneath the fourth reactor building.Volodymyr PravykThe lieutenant who led the first firefighting response at the plant.Valery LegasovSoviet chemist who helped direct the containment of the disaster.Vasily IgnatenkoPripyat firefighter who was among the first on the roofs that night.Anatoly DyatlovDeputy chief engineer who supervised the test at Reactor 4.Valery BespalovEngineer in the three-man team that drained the pools under the reactor.Boris BaranovShift supervisor who volunteered to drain the pools under the reactor.Boris ShcherbinaSoviet deputy premier who headed the commission on the disaster.Nikolai FominChief engineer of the plant who approved the safety test.Aleksandr AkimovShift supervisor at Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the disaster.Leonid ToptunovThe young engineer at the reactor control panel that night.Viktor BryukhanovDirector of the plant from its construction until the disaster.Leonid TelyatnikovCommander of the fire brigade that protected the power plant.Valery KhodemchukPump operator who was the first casualty of the disaster.Viktor KibenokLieutenant of the Pripyat fire brigade who died after fighting the fires.
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History, not the TV drama. For the HBO dramatisation see Chernobyl: The HBO Miniseries