Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kyiv Region after the Accident

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. The head of the shift for labor protection and safety engineering at the Armenian NPP P. Aloyan, who arrived at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to help eliminate the consequences of the nuclear accident. 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/TASS