Awarding of L.P. Telyatnikov in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Tengiz Nikolaevich Menteshashvili, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, Chief of the Militarized Fire Department No. 2 for the protection of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service Leonid Petrovich Telyatnikov, awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for leading the extinguishing of the fire at the fourth power unit in the first hours after the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (from left to right in the foreground), Head of the Department of Heavy Industry and Energy of the CPSU Central Committee Ivan Pavlovich Yastrebov and Head of the Department of Administrative Bodies of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Ivanovich Savinkin (from left to right in the background) during the award ceremony in the Kremlin. Vladimir Zavyalov, Valentin Kuzmin/TASS