Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kyiv Region after the accident

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Liquidators of the consequences of the nuclear accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the operator of the central hall of the NPP Vladimir Mikhailovich Krivenko and the head of the shift of the first power unit Dmitry Yuryevich Ovcharenko (from left to right) during a vacation in the Skazochny pioneer camp in the Chernobyl district. On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the fourth power unit of the NPP during equipment testing during the reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. Valery Zufarov, Vladimir Repik/TASS