Chernobyl Heroes In commemoration of the heroes professionals

Chernobyl Heroes In commemoration of the heroes, professionals, those who saved the world from a disaster. They died for us to live. It took 600, 000 people to eliminate the effects of Chornobyl disaster.

Gymnasium Troyeschyna Kyiv, Ukraine Chernobyl 1986 Authors: • Oleksandr Zarvanitsky • Yaroslav Kryvenko

Chernobyl Heroes

Chernobyl is a Ukrainian city in the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the north of Ukraine near the border with Belarus. Chernobyl is about 90 kilometres northeast of Kyiv. It is a very old city. It was first mentioned in chronicles in 1193 as a good place for hunting. It used to be a beautiful city.

Chernobyl disaster On 26 April 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. It was the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, both in terms of cost and casualties. 100 times more radioactive material was released from Chernobyl than by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Chernobyl Liquidators Shortly after the accident, firefighters arrived to extinguish the fire. It was a Chernobyl Power Station firefighter brigade under the command of Lieutenant V. Pravik, who died on 9 May 1986 of acute radiation sickness as well as other firefighters. Liquidators on the roof of Reactor 3 taken by photographer I. Kostin. The white streaks at the bottom of the photo were due to the high levels of radiation emanating from below. V. Pravik From 1986 to 1992 more than 600, 000 liquidators, the civil and military personnel, were called upon to deal with consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. More than 25, 000 died of acute radiation sickness.

Red Forest After the disaster, four square kilometres of pine forest directly downwind of the reactor turned reddish-brown and died, hence the name "Red Forest".

Ghost Cities Chernobyl and Pripyat are ghost cities like others in the Exclusion Zone. There abandoned houses with dusty furniture, old newspapers, and personal belongings of residents and clocks froze at around 26 April 1986.

Forbidden Zone It used to be a classroom Approximately 100, 000 km² of land was significantly contaminated with fallout in some parts of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Today the Exclusion Zone covers an area of approximately 2, 600 square km. It is one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world. People don’t live here. The area won't be safe for human habitation for more than 20, 000 years. The names of the abandoned villages

Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, NSC The NSC was designed with the primary goal of containing the radioactive remains of Chernobyl Unit 4 and the sarcophagus for the next 100 years, preventing the reactor complex from leaking radioactive material into the environment. It is also intended to allow a future partial demolition of the sarcophagus.

Nature and animals in Exclusion Zone Lynx Deer Wolf The area has largely reverted to forest, and has been overrun by wildlife because of a lack of competition with humans for space and resources.

Chernobyl Radiation and Environmental Biosphere Reserve On 30 th of March 2017, Chernobyl Radiation and Environmental Biosphere Reserve got its legal registration and will occupy 2/3 of the Exclusion Zone. The rest area of Chernobyl Zone in range of 10 -kilometers around Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant remains as industrial area.

They died for us to live This is the Monument to Chornobyl firefighters who came first to extinguish the fire after the blast. They all died of acute radiation sickness. The inscription says: “For those who saved the world”.

For whom Chornobyl bell tolls? There a lot of monuments all over former Soviet Union commemorating Chornobyl victims. This one is in Kyiv. Every year, on the 26 th of April, with the minute of silence, we mark the anniversary of Chornobyl disaster and honour those who died because of the accident. Chornobyl bell warns people not to break the laws of nature!

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