The Chernobyl disaster, considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the So
Deceased liquidators' portraits used for an anti-nuclear protest in Geneva
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Vasily Ignatenko
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Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko was a Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster.
Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster
…face scalded by steam or hot water. Ukraine's Order For Courage of third degree; Soviet Union's Order of the Badge of Honor. 320-420 rem. 390-490 rem. Ignatenko, Vasily Ivanovych Игнатенко, Василий Иванович 1961-03-13, Sperizhe, Gomel, Byelorussian SSR 1986-05-13, Moscow ARS of the 4th degree. Skin and intestinal injuries…
Ignatenko during his term of conscripted service as a military firefighter
The School in Sperizh'e pictured in 2016.
The fire station apartments in Pripyat where Ignatenko lived, as they appeared in 2019.
Ignatenko fought fires on the roofs of the ventilation block and reactor three, the part of the structure seen here around and behind the striped ventilation stack