tuk, well, being then, in general, still quite a young man, and in general the deputy head of the department, he only made a decision that concerned, well, a global catastrophe, and he accepted it and took it upon himself. vladimir maksimchuk takes all his subordinates 2 km from the reactor, then he sends teams of five people to the fire site to put out the fire and get on armored personnel carriers. the time of work in the zone of maximum radiation damage is strictly limited to exactly 10 minutes immediately after the task is completed by the first group to replace it the second is sent, then the third, it was necessary to act quickly. they could not cope with the fire for 12 hours, only by 14:30, on may 23, the fire was finally extinguished. he became ill. any area there. he is dangerous. it's just, well, you know what you compare

it to was a war by military standards. well, so by the standards, why? here, uh, when they say what is the dose load? yes, nothing worked like that, because all of our dosimeters are not designed for peacetime for a reactor room operator five roentgens per for a year it was an extraordinary incident at the station about what happened to vladimir maksimchuk these days, his family did not know anything from april 26 until june 8, a month and a half of anxious silence. and suddenly calls from uh, kiev, volodin's sister, something he, lord, what uh. here. i'm bad. i knew very well that it was bad and i read the newspapers, i didn’t read it anymore

, and i know that it’s bad and you say that you can come. i doubt rather lyudmila maksimchuk. i rushed to the station and bought a ticket to kiev where to go next i had no idea, but i felt in my heart that trouble happened to her husband, while she was packing things for the journey at home, the phone rang. it was her husband, but lyudmila maksimchuk's native voice, she recognized it with difficulty, the voice will change a lot. and you have everything to go. i say, yes, don't you dare, i say you're going. and put it down again. all right, i say, thank you very much. think soon the train is calling again, after all, i know that you have not changed your mind. after all, i demand that you do not leave. i 'll be back soon. you yourself understand. i realized that i definitely didn’t need to go, so as not to aggravate the situation , about three more weeks would pass and vladimir maksimchuk. finally, he will return home, turned, from the edge, the door saw a bouquet. there, accompanying from a bouquet of white peonies, it was such a net , these white peonies from kiev and that's it. it was

completely different from what he was leaving in. that's it, it's not his, probably, everything was radioactive bad there, but the peony, which means there is no new suit in it. he was happy to be back home. that it is possible to live on, but to live as before, vladimir maksimchuk, who received a terrible radioactive contamination, could no longer be in a very bad condition. uh, the leg was puffiness such that it was impossible to understand where it was split, where the knee looked very bad and i wanted to rush to work, but we called the doctor through probably a day later. well sick leave. how long did it take to go on sick leave to work, lord, to work, and for such a long, long time the doctors fought for the life of alexander gudkov, but everything was very tough. and i felt really bad. and it's not from the very beginning. but then i was still an organism. well, you were a very

healthy person. here, and then here's the inside bleeding constantly. here are very low blood counts, very low, you don’t want anything at all, then you lie down, and to get up, uh, you need to do a colossal job all wet. that's because you can get up and walk along the wall. well , i mean, well, it's like people who got serious. who is not interested in who the symptoms of alexander gudkov were familiar with, the same thing happened with the first victims of the explosion in chernobyl, radiation sickness is a common diagnosis for everyone, only, unlike the first liquidators , there was no words, but you will understand radiation, if there is no fire, if there is no fire, comrades, then there are no victims, therefore, we have no diagnoses. i

say i got caught in the hospital after we got out of there that i left. i ended up in the hospital leading to vascular dystonia. it was an unspoken order, from above, a second fire at the exploded power unit was kept secret. it was an order, practically the leadership of the country at that time. that's because, well, imagine a situation when on april 6 there was an explosion and a fire and everyone knew that the firemen were the first to work. so hard, that means, uh, severe radiation sickness and they died in agony and the world the whole house. and suddenly, a month later , it happens exactly, on the same block again a fire and again everything, that is. well, how is it, of course, they didn’t talk about it, of course, everything was

closed about it after the fact that what happened, an official conclusion was drawn up, the word fire, it didn’t even mention even somehow a fire, which is always compiled. it was called, which was approved by the ministry of atomic energy, the deputy minister of atomic energy approved the act of igniting cables in room 400 was called the third tactic used by vladimir maksimchuk. when extinguishing a fire, it will then be included in textbooks on civil defense. he succeeded. the main thing is to save people and cope with the fire. but he himself was no longer able to cope with the consequences of what had happened. it was written in some documents there, some were installed there, he didn’t write to anyone, in fact there was nothing to measure. and who changed those doses there? what's even the dose? it seems to me how much stress itself generally gets when yes, this is the number of people who took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the chernobyl

accident. it is difficult to count fire scientists miners volunteers only according to official information more than half a million people each of them knew about radiation and the consequences, but everyone did everything to stop the catastrophe and its consequences, but what became the true cause of the accident was sorted out for quite a long time among the working versions designs accidental during the circumstances of negligence. or maybe even sabotage. what it was exactly what happened at the chernobyl station on the night of april 26 , 1986 that the state commission, which included the academician, had to answer this question. valery legasov almost every day. he

kept an audio diary and recorded it on a dictaphone. all impressions from behind, including during the work to eliminate the consequences of the disaster from these unique recordings. clearly, moscow every day demanded to report the situation verbatim in detail. by the way, about the conversation with gorbachev, mikhail sergeevich asked what was being done? - said that rose mass psychosis in the world. asked my opinion about the true situation, and the true situation was catastrophic and science prompted to launch robots to clean the roof of the third unit, launch robots. everything was resolved very quickly. robots were installed with japan, which, after half an hour from the level of radiation, crumbled, spun in place and died out, and then it was decided to launch our men on the roof empirically, there was no empirical analogue. without a dose

they launched onto the roof and the work shift was covered, then a man 1 minute 15 seconds. there was a camera, they showed the camera by a stopwatch, they started it when it became clear that no technique from the consequences of such an accident could cope with the consequences of such an accident, the military was sent to chernobyl when mobilization was announced. and this is such a concept, yes, that, after the war, no one had ever heard, no one raised the assigned staff, assigned to the present in the reserve did not rise in such numbers, and in chernobyl it was necessary to pull off more than 150,000. therefore, there were no questions, everything was fine understood. it is necessary because if we do not tame the raging reactor, then this infection will come to the

kuban, so we built the conversation to convince the peasants. uh, it was right that the decision was made that to call up conscripts, who were not allowed to be 18 , because there was already a bitter experience. the bitter experience is an attempt to involve conscripts in the liquidation of soldiers who were brought to chernobyl for reconnaissance. kiev civil defense regiment. we also called it five hundred then. 500 people were taken out all the way in 2 days, they put the whole way straight sense they perished the dose of receiving, which could no longer be in the dose and therefore made a decision. not younger than 35 and not older than 45. that's why we didn't have refuseniks. there, from krasnodar, 800 people half lived in tents

, small tents of six people; there were many, probably, who understand what physics is. yes, and a chain reaction . a chain reaction. that's a huge heat release. unmanaged in general, it’s not clear what’s going on and they decided to jam it. they jammed with wet clay, they jammed with a helicopter on a garter and went in and from above they began to jam with lead then in the soviet union they scooped up all the lead lead came from france and realized that aerial photography cannot be decomposed. yes, on the fourth power unit, then they began to drop it. more than 5,000 tons were counted , thrown into the reactor, it began to sag.

there was no pillow in which to save the refuge reactor , then it became clear. the help of miners is needed, contrary to the widespread myth, they were not sent to chernobyl by order, only volunteers were taken, it was not an order. i repeat again there. uh, not all volunteers were selected, they selected the best. this is the second stream. uh, the best and in the third and in the third squad the same best. it’s just that everyone didn’t get into the first detachment, the period of stay at a dangerous facility is strictly limited, as soon as the received dose of radiation became critical, they rotated, the task was to go through a tunnel of 150 m from the third block to the third and to the fourth as quickly as possible, and then already, and mount camera 30 by 30 is right under the fourth block. he was above us for that there they mounted refrigeration units there, and in order to cool the reactor, as it were.

from below, this task faced us to do it in three months; at first, we also had not up to a month. two even before there was even a lot, and then when he had already arrived, so they collected up to ten radiations. well, we scored 10, we are already home, probably, this one and a half month has not passed, even 10 has not passed from moscow to 15 years. we work up to 15 dollars, then we added five more harmful 20 percent not harmful. and so we go up to 20 percent of 20 radiation in one year. here are 5 months we worked there, as much as the tenth of january.

november 1986 is considered to be the end of work on the elimination of the consequences of the chernobyl accident. it was then that the sarcophagus built around the power unit was completed and handed over for maintenance. but judging by what the survivors say, this date can be considered conditional, for example, the military remained in chernobyl until the winter of 1987, waiting for an official order to return to their places of permanent deployment. but the causes of the disaster were established much earlier. here a unique document top secret urgently to the chairman of the kgb of the ukrainian ussr, comrade mukha, the explosion occurred as a result of a series of gross violations of the rules for the operation of technologies and not and the safety regime during the operation of the reactor of the fourth unit of the nuclear power plant, deputy chairman of the kgb about the ussr kovtun on may 11 , 1986, according to the official version, which

subsequently or the head of the basis of the criminal case , the plant personnel conducted a planned experiment at the fourth unit, which, according to the plan, was supposed to increase the safety of the nuclear power plant of change, they say that this experiment is to blame. at the same time, the program of the experiment, which was going to be carried out for the fourth time, was not agreed with the security department. and more importantly, with the designers of the reactor, the reactor is designed as a is the norms and rules of the station is designed. if we omit the technical details, the picture will turn out to be a simple reactor of the type that was installed at the chernobyl plant has a number of design features and the personnel should not have known. true reasons this tragedy is a serious constructive and shortcomings of the apparatus itself, that is, the

protein-1000 reactor, as well as the control and protection system of this reactor, which was subsequently partially eliminated, and then a chain of fatal accidents begins to conduct an experiment. they should have been after the shutdown of the reactor, but the dispatcher called. kievenergo with a request to work at half capacity for another 12 hours. this is a common situation. do you know that there are now difficulties with electricity? at power you went down there, about 50 percent. please stop maybe we need it, then there for a day and so on. naturally, the law of the sea to rescue everyone was stopped. but what happens at the same time guys

what happens here is that the reactor becomes poorly controlled and after 12 hours, which kievenergo asked for, the new shift that took up the post receives permission to continue reducing the power to control this process, the new shift that has entered is no longer possible . she, for unknown reasons, was unable to maintain the power level of the installation's reactor at 22%, which was necessary to conduct the experiment and failed e, the power level of the installation to zero further many experts point out that this is one of the key points. uh, a fatal mistake, when, in a good way, it was necessary to leave the installation alone and put the reactor on safety repair plans. the haircut had already been fixed and, accordingly,

to conduct this experiment sometime later, but anatoly, who led the experiment, made a decision. despite everything, dyatlov had been working there for a long time at some point. well, that is engineer-physicist, he is very intelligent, which means that an experienced specialist has completed the mission. that is, well, he enjoyed an unattractive authority. everyone did an experiment so they wrote down everything that needed to be written down. and after that, the power should have risen a little. she began to power it up. there was a fatal error here, which, well, which usually does, says let's reset everything to all emergency protection, stop the reactor itself, the procedure for completing this experiment by pressing the emergency protection button. and on uh say there's nothing in this no

reprehensible, it is allowed to complete this experiment by pressing the emergency protection button, but the results that we received after pressing the emergency protection button, and did not turn out to be absolutely opposite to the expectations of the personnel who would manage, but because of the mistakes already made, the significance of which the personnel seems to be generally did not realize all his designs of the reactor, about which, apparently, no one thought after 3 seconds. after pressing the emergency protection button az-5 , the first explosion occurred on the reactor. it's later it turned out. what are the details as they say, here are the designs of everything bit by bit, all these things were known, but when they gathered into one such ornament, which led to an explosion. in general, a detailed description of the causes and circumstances of the chernobyl disaster

were set out in a report presented in august in the eighty-sixth at the conference of the international atomic energy agency and the report. this one was printed on four fifty pages, it was huge, and this one was being prepared and just for e mikhail sergeevich gorbachev, because it could not have occurred to anyone that someone from them would make a report for this, but would be asked to speak at bogatyr with a story about what happened there. but gorbachev why did he make a different decision there was a call from the central committee of the party to vsevich, they said it was necessary, right? he asked. and why did i well, they said, well, how, well, you are there from the first day, you know everything. you interacted with everyone, you made the decision, you are completely ministries and departments. after all, all these issues were coordinated, and to whom, if not you, the speech of academician legasov at the conference in vienna lasted 6 hours and produced

the effect of a bombshell. i came here not to justify myself with these words. he began his speech, and then openly and impartially told about everything. what happened, he was greeted with applause and offered to lecture at the best departments in the world, but valery legasov returned to moscow and soon the official version of suicide died, but his relatives still refuse to believe it. from vienna, valery legasov returned to moscow with a triumph for valery alekseevich was a man of the system. she shaped him. he was a soviet man, first of all, he was a communist. secondly, he was the son of a communist. uh, thirdly, he absolutely, so to speak, grew up in these communist feelings, considered them correct, but

not everyone was happy at home with the resounding international triumph of the academician, a very simple emotional situation of human jealousy of human envy , because after the difficult months spent in chernobyl, serious health problems. he was already sick and it was clear that he was sick. smertin's man was losing weight before his eyes. he was there a little over a kilogram a month and that's it. he stopped eating, he stopped sleeping. his hair began to fall out. he started having problems. he has skin through problems with the nervous system, and at the same time he continued to work in the eighty-seventh and eighty-eighth years of valery legasova. twice put forward the title of the hero of socialist labor for the successful and selfless work to eliminate the consequences accident at the chernobyl plant, but at the last moment the award was denied without explanation

. and then, by secret ballot, ligasov was not included in the scientific and technical council of the kurchaty institute of atomic energy, and it turned out to be an absolutely strange situation in which the first deputy director. yes, the man who just pulled on his shoulders. all this chernobyl uh disaster, but he was not included in the technical council of the kurchatov institute, and his health stopped. everything is worse than any of the existing at that time, the methods of treatment did not help valery legasov was dying in front of his loved ones. he could not sleep, and he would take pills somewhere during every hour, because he wanted to sleep. he needed to make himself fall asleep. so, apparently, the person simply didn’t control it anymore, can you imagine, when you want to sleep. yes, she went to saturn and drank a pill. she doesn't work. he passed often. another technique, nothing

works, you think, lord, my god. well , what about another one in an hour? you what happened he on throughout the whole night, and somewhere every hour he tried to fall asleep, he tried to fall asleep, and when in the morning mom woke up and saw. how much sleeping pills luna drank, she was horrified as a chemist, then it will be called the first suicide attempt, but at that time the doctors will be able to save him. but the next one will not work on that day. uh, my mother left for work restless, we broke up very much, and he called a car in order to go to the institute. that is, he had to go to work and, uh, by a certain hour. the machine must was to come for him. and moreover, the next day he was supposed to make a report to prepare for the report. he had already been all reconciled ready. and he had plans for the next day to speak bookmarks. uh, nothing foreshadowed what is called you understand, and the car behind him came to the

house, brother, he came to have dinner. uh, at lunchtime and found my father already dead. so the situation is still there. we do not understand what happened, because, incomprehensibly to us, the brother found him in the noose. about whether it is worth living after the painful death of firefighter vasily ignatenko thought more than once and his wife lyudmila i just can not forget this moment. so i came vasya the grave of vasily ignatenko at the mitinsky cemetery was covered with an anti-radiation pillow, they were filled with 40 centimeters. we may

not talk about it. i can’t, please, lyudmila was taken from the cemetery to the maternity hospital. i believe that the child was born normal and well, it is clear that he was sick and sick, that the radiation gave his daughter. she called natasha, the baby lived for 5 hours, please, i can't. can we not? you're very heavily irradiated for life after the death of a husband and the death of a daughter. she prayed to heaven only for one thing to give birth to a child, tender, prayed to god, and vasya that the lord would give me a child,

it is clear that this was only a dream. and thank god that we dream came true. lyudmila hides her son from the press. yes, and she tries to avoid journalists. and what is this. your back hurts. no, i didn't want that, something felt sorry for you. like this. no, i didn't want to, i left on purpose. away from the memories left and natalia hodomchuk was. how to tell children that their father was forever under

the wreckage of the chernobyl reactor? when we got off the bus, the yalarisi told our dad no. he stayed in the reactor, they said, and already so, but she did not cry. i tried not to cry in front of them, but i knew oleg, they were in artek. they told oleg i recognized it. who else did my dad’s dad die, that he didn’t, even he was faithful, he cried so much he was the most let’s say we didn’t have to. uh, a nurse, says she took his medical unit to the chernobyl reactor. she went every year, as she goes to the cemetery in the house. and, uh, this same hawk moth volodin - it’s already driving, and in did not go this year, because the trains were no longer running

. whether this is the house where slavik got an apartment, here he sells and lived a little in this house. this is a street with one house, hydroprojector street, building 1, it’s not clear whether you like it or not, but for some reason they go on their own. it's right down the hallway. you kind of come in, but look already, you know, there, first of all, it’s already dangerous to go in. it is no longer possible to go there at his dilapidated house, he will take the last photo as a keepsake. to many families of the liquidators only memory remains

memory, against which even radiation is powerless mikhail gendelev was with you, see you in a new investigation based on real events.