Press conference in Moscow dedicated to the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident

USSR. Moscow. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, First Deputy Director of the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. Valery Alekseevich Legasov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Andranik Melkonovich Petrosyants, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Yuri Petrovich Batalin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vladimir Fyodorovich Petrovsky, First Deputy Minister of Health of the USSR Oleg Prokopyevich Shchepin, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control Yuri Antonievich Izrael (from left to right) during a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists at the press center of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dedicated to the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Alexander Konkov/TASS