Chernobyl (miniseries)
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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. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin
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The Soviet-era district of Fabijoniškės in Vilnius, Lithuania was used to portray Pripyat.
Valery Legasov
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Valery Alekseyevich Legasov was a Soviet inorganic chemist, professor at Moscow State University, first deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and a member of the Academy of Scie
Chernobyl (miniseries)
…revision—even from one edition to the next—of her interviews, which suggests that her works should not be taken as verbatim oral history. Jared Harris as Valery Legasov, the deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute brought in to aid cleanup efforts. Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina, a Council of Ministers' deputy…
Legasov, c. 1986
Valery Legasov
Reactor 4 several months after the disaster.
Legasov (second from right) at a Vienna press conference, August 1986