in thick fog we are heading to a place that frightens the beckoning at the same time, where now few people dare to go of their own free will three already and yes, on the sides of an untidy road, at first glance , a completely ordinary forest, as if a ghost floats by an island of some building with unkind eyes of us flocks of stray dogs are escorted around by bare trees and desolation everything suggests that there are no people here except us, and for a long time there was only one sound that does not stop the dead silence, the signal of a device that measures radiation dosimeter, as if insistently demanding turn back. with each step, the signal becomes stronger and more disturbing. it seems that with every meter passed, the level of radiation increases. warning signs and an old sign appear on the roadside, on

which the paint seems to be covered with scales attention, the territory of the object is guarded the passage is closed, but we need to go here. here we are, where the ghost town begins. this is pripyat city which is not. polissya hotel, where guests have not been staying for 35 years, palace of culture a power engineer where no one has asked for two tickets for a daytime show for a lifetime , a terrible picture opens up from the ferris wheel. this amusement park was going to be inaugurated on may 1 , 1986 by the residents. pripyat called relatives. boasted rides here built to envy.

but on the may holidays there will be no one here, some will be urgently evacuated, others will end up in the hospital, affected by radiation, others will die after receiving a lethal dose. the fate of the fourth will forever remain unknown. 35 years have passed since the chernobyl tragedy happened on april 26, 1986 remember, everyone born in the ussr made dozens of films written by sotnik and articles, but much of this tragedy still remained behind the scenes, and chernobyl continued to hide its secrets behind the perimeter of the exclusion zone dead settlements, surviving people with crippled destinies and a huge number of secrets, which seemed to be forever covered with radiation ash. and only now we managed to meet with those who kept silent all these years. today, many participants in those events

for the first time tell the whole truth. hallelujah can be said about a new city that has just been born. unless it arose thanks to the energy giant of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, these shots were filmed in eighty-third, clean streets, wide avenues pripyat, an exemplary young city happy future city of pripyat , lucky those who created it managed not only to put a particle of their heart into the creation of their hands and mind . they still had the courage to break the established ideas and stereotypes. pripyat is true broke stereotypes. the vast majority lived here, young, promising, purposeful, the average age of a local resident is 26 years. here were all the department stores restaurants and cafes

ice cream, the city of nuclear scientists, was supplied according to the highest class on the shelves there was an abundance swimming pool lapis lazuli palace of culture energetik cinema prometheus decorinka. it was a wonderful place to go there in the middle age was about twenty-five, twenty-seven years young, a city with great prospects came to pripyat for the first time. he made me so choked of him such a beautiful place pine board. it’s just that the picture still stands before your eyes when you stop by, through the sight of such a railway, so just the same greenery all around, yes, in general, in the forest, well, the city. the trees were drowning in the forest, the

river was so indescribable around the pier, the beauty was indescribable, it was so clean around it was so well. we were not afraid to walk in the evenings. well, beauty, just beauty, like in paradise for that spring of '86. each of them made their own plans. vladimir brazhnik was going to walk at his brother's wedding. he was a guy. we are still single, but i met a girl with them. there was a plan in the month of may 1986, vyacheslav orlov planned a vacation, even the statement had already been signed, the authorities did not mind. i have, at all something with monday with monday vacation began. but lyudmila ignatenko with her husband vasily their plans for the future was not shared, even the closest ones will develop with health such a long-awaited child, and that's

it. we really wanted him. of course, we were afraid that april was noisy in the yard, and they still didn’t know anything nor about the explosion that would divide life into before and after neo ’s death, which was already waiting around the corner nor about the mountain that would forever settle in their hearts. everything was on fire, inside them. well, okay, i don’t want the night of april 26, 1986, when hundreds of thousands of lives could end at once, began as usual, and did not bode well. those who i was lucky enough to survive, remember it, forever hour 23 minutes 4 seconds at the fourth power unit of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, a scheduled test of equipment begins. some engineers. even the trainees, they stayed right here on the block

account to see how this experiment is going. well , they didn't know about it. yes, here for your future work experience. now 23 minutes 39 seconds. the night sky at the fourth power unit of the chernobyl nuclear power plant is illuminated by an incredible flash, an explosion emits 140 tons of radioactive substances within a radius of three kilometers. what really happened? well, that is what actually happened. i didn’t even know and i did n’t know when we were there when in the sixth hospital we were there, we got there, everyone was still alive for one hour 28 minutes an american satellite passes over the european part of the soviet union , its cameras record a bright, gamma glow below, characteristic of an explosion nuclear bomb, destruction ejection. and here it is, uh, glow and a huge level of radiation 1 hour 29 minutes on alarm, the first fire brigade leaves everywhere short

closure. water is pouring everywhere. uh, fires here from the speedy turbine hall. uh, it's covered in broken bitym pieces falling on turbine turbine equipment. shop 1 hour 38 minutes, firefighters begin to extinguish the burning power unit. radiation protection. no, they left in the usual fighting suits , presentation pants, jackets and helmets on the hands of the defense. and the mittens at the source of the fire gas masks were removed due to the high temperature 4 hours 30 minutes fire on the roof of the fourth power unit, the reactor is extinguished, continues to breathe radioactive smoke, exhibited the cordon off the city of pripyat woke up, i don’t know that the countdown was launched, if the first guys, that’s what we’re talking about, of course they are heroes, if they hadn’t put it out, then i can’t even imagine the scale of the disaster that could have come further, but they stayed and didn't leave about

what happened that night at the nuclear power plant in the town. at first, no one knew pripyat, of course, i will not deceive. i did not hear or hear an explosion , contrary to rumors and fantasies of the screenwriters of the sensational series, when at the station a terrible drama unfolded. residents of the city slept peacefully in their apartments, not even suspecting the mortal danger. well, they found out because the accident was about an hour at 3:00 at night. the guys went from door to door to our apartments, spreading iodine, handing out iodine tablets. here we are the first first. what they learned about iodine tablets, which they began to urgently distribute to residents, surprisingly not everyone was alerted on the morning of saturday april 26, when the chernobyl reactor was breathing radiation, infecting everything around. children in pripyat, as if nothing had happened, we went to school

could not understand why they wash the street with foam wash the streets and all of his respirators and in protective suits. here are those who washes the streets in this form, and here the children were running, walking, all all undressed warmly hot completely in the sandbox. residents asked to do wet cleaning of apartments. otherwise, it seemed, nothing special everything as always. in the apartment it is necessary not to wet cleaning. e in this. the world of iodine or soul is no longer vinegar. water was added. uh,

vinegar was added to the water and the entrance was washed. no official reports of an accident, or at least an emergency situation. at the chernobyl nuclear power plant on the day of the catastrophe did not appear for the first time, and what happened very carefully with reservations will be announced only 79 hours after the explosion, the announcer of the vremya program will read out a dry informational summary. taz by that time, rumors one more terrible than the other will already have time to sow panic. what exactly happened on the night of the torrent, no one knew exactly, and even more so, they did not suspect that another catastrophe awaited ahead, after 35 years. we will re-establish the chronology of what happened, we will see it through the eyes of those for whom it has become personal tragedy. a mistake, negligence or still sabotage, about which the perpetrators of the disaster were silent for 35 years. who is there now guarded by the ghosts of the dead city? why the main liquidator of the accident took his own

life and what the son of the convicted director of the chernobyl nuclear power plant decided to confess for the first time, see immediately after a very short ntv advertisement on the air time site www.tv.ru mobile applications ntv and today always differently. one woman found out that she was adopted in her family when she was 18 and since then she has been dreaming of hugging her relatives, who knows who i look like, what my nationality is, another woman grew up in her uncle's family, so her mother died when her daughter was only 2 years the infection disappeared. he was not even at his mother’s funeral, and both of them are united only by the names of the biological theme, she collected seven days , her mother polina was biological - she said that she could not

raise another child, little yulia crawled over her mother, the dead girl was taken away. we until she arrived, uncle, i don’t remember anything. will they really see each other in our studio for the first time in their lives, two diverted daughters of one woman, brothers and sisters, you didn’t have anyone in our studio there are women who, as it were, degenerated into a man, and my last name at birth was like i will open the envelope for you with my hand, dna tomorrow at 17:50 yes ntv on the evening of april 25, 1986, the exciting soviet tv series rich poor man was shown on tv to follow the family saga based on the novel, irvine's shows at the screens gathered from young to great among those who watched, not coming off the next series, were residents of the city of pripyat , lyudmila shashenok and natalya khodovichuk, a surname that

the whole party will soon recognize. this is how the movie ends. and about love, but then i already have a completely dish. this is when in moscow they were like that . but they said such things, but as i will show, you don’t remember kefir. she, uh, the poor man and the rich woman, the series was coming to an end, when the service engineer vladimir shishinok and the senior operator of the main circulation pumps. valery khodymchuk began to gather for the bus for the night shift departed at exactly 11:00. i hug him so much. so i will put my hands on my shoulders behind my neck, i will hug you. and you, e, follow us for love, like, and what is the calculation of marrying me? and? well, he is afraid of such letters, of course, of course, out of love , he didn’t know yet that this was their last meeting, and she

would forever go down in history, like the widow of the first victim of chernobyl, not vladimir shinok, not valery khochemchuk , would not return home again. we will have such a shift today, it will be a very difficult installation, well , they always installed it there, but now it will be, uh, a serious shutdown, uh, the reactor will have the same difficult night. well. it's very hard for him. a lifetime later, the series chernobyl will make the famous lyudmila ignatenko, she will be searched for by journalists from all over the world, but we turned out to be the only ones she agreed to talk with. lyudmila's husband vasily ignatenko is a firefighter from the very brigade that the

granddaughter was first raised by patriology so well it was in uniform. generally beautiful very and even more so, i say he pulled, firstly, because he served in the fire department. and in general he was very loved his job very much sergeant ignatenko was in excellent standing. lyudmila was proud. they were burning in the village. zakarilis. eh, the haystack caught fire, he was the first to run into bill's arms and forward. he quickly, he was generally such an initiator in everything , it was very nimble young lovers and happy the whole world revolved around the two of them that soon they would be three out of superstition, even their

parents did not say. we, firstly, we were very afraid to say something to someone, that i was in a position and that's it. well, somehow here we are, uh, adhered to this. and secondly, that we were supposed to go on may 4th. to my parents, because easter is may 4, and we were supposed to be with them. we had tickets. before the explosion of the 4th power unit of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, 13 days, fate, as if warning his beloved ignatenko, bad omens begin. first, i lost my wedding ring. we couldn't figure out where it was made. i also remember that it seemed to me that i went to bed with him with this ring, but i did not take it off after the wedding and i suddenly see that it is not there. and vasya, go get your ring with a bag so that took off. but it's not funny. come on, where's the ring? what did you

take off, he says, and what did i take off? you didn't really believe me? i say you are laughing. well, you probably starred somewhere and now you're teasing me. that's how you say, he says, no, i didn't take it. we stopped everything, we are every corner in the apartment all around. all duvet covers pillows, all shaken out. we could not figure out where to make a ring for 7 days before the catastrophe, a confectionery where lyudmila worked, a strange visitor comes. and you passed it on to me. our grandmother took away. eh, waste. here is the strength. grandmother took away from the entrance. we always have something burnt there, some kind of, well, in general, waste from the confectionery shop. and my grandmother came and looked at me. and she says that she lost the ring,

was she some kind of grandmother or was she a clairvoyant or what? here i don't know. and says your husband works with big red cars. i think, well, grandma knows somewhere that i won’t say something. so well, you won't have long to live. so when she said, it was like that, it hurt so much, i think, god, well, how is it that a terrible man-made disaster remains 17 hours, 23 minutes lyudmila ignatenko with a calm heart escorts her husband to work, in principle, as always, well, there was no foreboding of this, there was absolutely no anxiety, but the only anxiety that we were going to, that do we have to go? i worked, e, he must have worked, he

should come on the twenty-sixth. they gathered for the city for the sake of such a case. vasily asked the authorities to leave the shift early in advance. he went off the chart. he worked that day, but at 6:00 in the morning he had signed a report on e, leave. well, like a vacation, we took a couple of days off, because we had to go to his parents. uh, then he exchanged with someone, uh, to his parents to fight potatoes for a month heating. eh, my parents were planting potatoes, waiting for us, and then we had to go right away. uh, ivan frankovshchina. i interfere on the fourth number were tickets. my windows overlook the nuclear power plant. so i saw a nuclear power plant, and we saw some kind of smoke like that, something like that, some kind of glow. well

this is so behind the trees in principle, but you can see the nuclear power plant. and i i well, as i'm going, then i have to lie to the bags, and that's it. it's midnight, i haven't slept yet. well , in our youth, we generally don’t sleep for a long time somehow in the kitchen, then something else, and i went out onto the balcony, i see, wow , uh, there are a lot of them lined up like three cars. eh, this is how i stand. and i also say, vasya, where are you going to the balcony on the third floor, well, well, the garden and the road. this is building up to us. this one is on this road. uh, near the fire station too. well, there is no one to ask, and already six in the morning seven in the morning he is gone. clear. already anxiety was not the right word at the same

time, for the first time she felt fear for her husband's life. natalya khodymchuk at seven o'clock in the morning my cousin came to me. she came to me and said that natasha is where valera is. i go to work. when she came to boris and said, there was such an accident, the reactor exploded. and even the khreshchinka vein blew up the first thing that we were taken to the station , they took us around. in short, the fourth row - the ruins of the fourth row, what was seen at the chernobyl nuclear power plant vladimir brazhnik has been working since the late seventies. at first i got a job myself, and then we persuaded my younger brother, they say, in good conditions. come in the

eighties came. so, follow in my footsteps. i told you that both career growth and the opportunity to get an apartment. all this means attracted him. he came to see. he liked it like his older brother. vyacheslav brazhnik worked as a steam turbine driver on april 26, he was on duty on the night shift, which became his last. year goes by. probably eighty-four. this one was settled on the ninth floor, i don’t remember which balcony was on the right or i. well, in short, on the ninth floor, now in a dead city, 35 years after

the disaster, vladimir brazhnik is trying to find the same house. from where he last left for work, and he was the younger brother going to the balcony, it turns out that the stadium is opposite. and we all dreamed of waiting for the moment when our team would perform. play football and we'll sit on the balcony and drink beer and watch football. so that such events were not destined to come true. i started looking for him on the 26th day of the day , what was the information? well, they knew what happened, that the explosion knew that there were dead. we did not know how many people we would sell. well, that there are dead, we already knew my shift. that's it was from four to

twelve. i left for work at four. fifth shift was not my family. just a friend went to the wedding. then there was leningrad and we allowed substitutions, and i worked two shifts in a row. i worked from my third shift until 12:00. they are left and stayed on the night of april 26, the operator of the fourth power unit of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, oleg genrikh, was very close to the reactor, as was his partner, the senior operator. anatoly kurgus, was waiting for the command when it would be possible to enter the central hall somewhere. well, it's already an hour at 23. it happened there. uh, we had such a technical room with a brick floor. and so, when i came in, and literally in those seconds it happened. here are two explosions in a row. well, immediately, pitch darkness, nothing, everything hissed, something flooded

and i heard the screams. anatoly well, later i saw, of course, already on the site, when we ran out, when the emergency light had already turned on. i have seen this horror before. uh, how the steam scalded him with a mixture of water, she was damn, probably hot and still, without realizing herself. what exactly happened the allergenrikh instantly rushed to the rescue when i even opened the door, uh, and i would like to go to him, well, go to his cries to help and i shouted to him all the time, what happened anatoly uh, to which he says painfully painfully screaming ? i say, come to me, and when i opened the door, i, too, with this parody mixture. well, of course, the temperature was not the same and the distance was from this ventilation. i was overwhelmed and subsequently, but still really the longest, not healing. the burn was large enough to cover my entire chest. they tried to get out. but where only a minute ago there was a corridor, there were no walls, no windows, only

blockages and darkness, when we had almost reached, allegedly to the elevators. we saw that the street of this wall from the elevator did not have all the elevators, everything flew away. way down. everything, it’s just that the wall collapsed, collapsed, we realized that we couldn’t get out there, because these flights of stairs are also stairs. it all flew away. way down. everything collapsed. we returned back. we thought he was saying, let's go through the ventilation corridors to the third block. let's go guys. and so we rushed back and forth, went back only later, when they still miraculously manage to find a way out, and they don’t understand that the stones they were running on are nothing but radioactive graphite. it was then that i realized that we were running, some stones were stumbling. it was graphite. we didn’t understand then, but when we did a twist and saw that the whole wall of our workplace of this block was torn apart and

such a glow goes on. well then, we somehow didn’t pay much attention to him. we realized that something terrible and unpleasant had happened, but we still didn’t fully understand that, well, the reactor was hidden there, that we were on the street using this graphite, he would first of all find doctors for his partner anatoly kurguz to at this point, the allergenrich himself will become very bad. first try to get rid of radiation on his own, but very soon he will need help. well, i was still smoking. the guys and i smoked. i won't finish my cigarette. i started to vomit. i stepped aside, and they went with the car, they brought the doctor and they say, here he is vomiting these signs. well, again, the instructions handed over radiation safety. the first sign is this . well, the doctor said everything. and they loaded me into the car. and took the 126th medical unit, the city of pripyat

both doctors of the city of pripyat have never seen a string of hundreds of ambulances, injured, condition, which worsened before our eyes, and most importantly, radiation surnames were no longer only patients, but also medical staff in white coats and cars transporting infected people accumulated dangerous doses. the doctors diagnosed themselves with alarming symptoms, but it turned out to replace them in a small town. it was simply no one then, it was decided to attract air ambulances to deliver patients to a hospital in kiev, and the most severe ones to moscow. the second emergency at the chernobyl station, which no one knew about, who saved the country from nuclear disaster classified as a secret embrace of death for a pregnant wife firefighter and revelation of the son of the director of the chernobyl nuclear power plant who was afraid of execution, but received 10 years. watch immediately after a short

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