Liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. Members of the government commission for the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Ivan Stepanovich Silaev, Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Yuri Antonievich Izrael and Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Pavlovich Velikhov (from left to right). On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the fourth power unit of the NPP during equipment testing during a reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. Valery Zufarov, Vladimir Repik/TASS