as historian anatoly bondar says, for several days the world knew nothing about the explosion. sharp increase in the radiation background was recorded in denmark and sweden, and moscow was asked to provide an explanation. instead, there to show the world that nothing happened. on may 1 , thousands of people, including children, took out a festive demonstration in kyiv. this station was built, it was a high-speed station under construction. these reactors were of poor quality, no way, there was no plan to start them up sooner, and in fact this chernobyl power plant, it supplied electricity abroad, there were terrible problems in the reactor, an emergency shutdown was attempted, but , unfortunately, it failed. on that terrible day , the alarm was raised by all services that worked 24x7 to stabilize the situation. in parallel with the elimination of the fire. the evacuation of the population continued. in total, more than 600,000 liquidators struggled with the consequences of the accident, who sacrificed their health to save others. one of them is oleg, who went to chernobyl as an