Press conference of members of the government commission on liquidation of the Chernobyl accident for the USSR Central Television

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. Members of the government commission for the liquidation of the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the CM of the Ukrainian SSR Vitaly Andreevich Masol, commentator for the Central Television of the USSR Aleksandr Nikolaevich Krutov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Ivan Stepanovich Silayev, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Valery Alekseevich Legasov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Yuriy Antnievich Izrael and Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Pavlovich Velikhov (from left to right in the foreground) during a press conference for the Vremya news program of the USSR Central Television. Valery Zufarov, Vladimir Repik/TASS