Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident Liquidators Awarded in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Tengiz Nikolaevich Menteshashvili, Head of the Department of Heavy Industry and Energy of the Central Committee of the CPSU Ivan Pavlovich Yastrebov, Chief of Staff of the Air Force of the Kyiv Military District Nikolai Timofeevich Antoshkin, awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, Deputy Chief Engineer for the decontamination of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Yuri Nikolaevich Samoylenko, Head of Construction Department No. 605 of the USSR Ministry of Medium Machine Building, who supervised the construction of the sarcophagus over the destroyed fourth unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Gennady Dmitrievich Lykov, Deputy Minister of Medium Machine Building of the USSR Aleksandr Nikolaevich Usanov, awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Chief of the Chemical Troops of the USSR Ministry of Defense Vladimir Karpovich Pikalov, awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, foreman of machine operators during the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Viktor Ivanovich Zavediy, awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service Leonid Petrovich Telyatnikov, awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Head of the Department of Administrative Bodies of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikolai Ivanovich Savinkin (from left to right) in the Catherine Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace after the award ceremony for the participants in the liquidation of the accident at the fourth power unit of the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Vladimir Zavyalov, Valentin Kuzmin/TASS