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
Legasov, c. 1986
Valery Legasov
Reactor 4 several months after the disaster.
Legasov (second from right) at a Vienna press conference, August 1986
Jared Harris
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Jared Francis Harris is an English actor. The son of the actor Richard Harris, he studied drama at Duke University and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has received accolades including
Valery Legasov
…installed on the wall of Valery Legasov's home in Tula. Legasov is portrayed by Ade Edmondson in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disaster (2006) and by Jared Harris in the Sky/HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019). He is also covered by Adam Curtis in his documentary series Pandora's Box (1992). List of Heroes of the…
Harris in 2025
His father, the actor Richard Harris
Jared Harris in 2014