Press conference dedicated to the causes of the Chernobyl accident and its consequences

USSR. Moscow. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, First Deputy Director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy Valery Alekseevich Legasov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Andranik Melkonovich Petrosyants and Head of the Press Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gennady Ivanovich Gerasimov (from left to right) during a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists dedicated to the causes of the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and its consequences in the press center of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Viktor Budan/TASS