April 09, 2018.https://www.alamy.com/eastern-europe-ukraine-pripyat-chernobyl-monument-to-the-liquidators-statue-commemorating-the-fallen-first-responders-firemen-april-09-2018-image256596099.html20 years from the nuclear incident of Chernobyl, monument to the 'Liquidators'https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-20-years-from-the-nuclear-incident-of-chernobyl-monument-to-the-liquidators-78967551.htmlA monument to firemen who extinguished the Chernobyl nuclear plant Unit 4 conflagration immediately after the disasterhttps://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-monument-to-firemen-who-extinguished-the-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-22962359.htmlMemorial to the liquidators killed at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident , Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukrainehttps://www.alamy.com/memorial-to-the-liquidators-killed-at-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-accident-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-ukraine-image255487733.htmlJournalists visiting the monument to liquidators of the Chernobyl catastrophe, near reactor 4 of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Planthttps://www.alamy.com/journalists-visiting-the-monument-to-liquidators-of-the-chernobyl-catastrophe-near-reactor-4-of-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-image241513686.htmlFire fighter’s monument 'For them who saved the world' in Chernobyl exclusion zone.
22 young lives gone. The Chernobyl accident occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat and was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and casualties.https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-man-walks-past-the-plates-with-names-of-abandoned-villages-at-the-105174857.htmlA dosimeter in hands with a level of radioactivity near the monument to the Chernobyl liquidators near the fourth reactor. Those that are empty are hidden amongst the undergrowth, many in various states of collapse.We were dropped at several food shops during my time there, not all are apparent with many located in much larger, but predominantly empty, buildings including one in the bus station. The photo was taken in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-monument-to-the-victims-of-the-chernobyl-tragedy-the-photo-was-taken-138028985.htmlMemorial for the firefighters of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident. Lost placehttps://www.alamy.com/monument-to-lenin-in-chornobyl-exclusion-zone-radioactive-zone-in-pripyat-city-abandoned-ghost-town-chernobyl-history-of-catastrophe-lost-place-image241042392.htmlhttps://www.alamy.com/the-stricken-reactor-in-chernobyl-image232673952.htmlThe Chernobyl town sign.
After a random walk and different articles about Chernobyl and the exclusion zone, I want speak to conclude (at this moment) my “Chernobyl Diaries”, about the efforts and the bravery of the firefighters (or liquidators as they were known here) in the fighting and management of the blaze that initially destroyed Reactor 4 in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Chernobyl, Ivankiv Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainehttps://www.alamy.com/the-monument-to-the-chernobyl-liquidators-in-front-of-the-new-safe-confinement-in-its-final-position-chernobyl-ivankiv-raion-kiev-oblast-ukraine-image336479535.htmlMonument to the victims of the Chernobyl tragedy.
Nothing like this had ever happened before.
Your Lightboxes will appear here when you have created some. Photo by Boris Cambreleng/AFP/Getty Images. Only 9 days later was it finally put out (see this post).
These Chernobyl liquidators went down in history as “bio-robots”. Monument to the liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster at the FES.
Chernobyl town, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine.https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-memorial-detail-for-the-firemen-of-the-1986-chernobyl-nuclear-power-125281834.htmlMonument of the Great Patriotic War in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation around the nuclear reactor disaster in Ukrainehttps://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-monument-of-the-great-patriotic-war-in-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-138943879.htmlEastern Europe,Ukraine, Pripyat, Chernobyl. 'Monument To The Liquidators' statue commemorating the fallen first responders, firemen. Chernobyl, Kiev Oblast Picture: Part of a statue in Chernobyl, erected in honour of the brave firefighters who were among the fi - Check out Tripadvisor members' 1,430 candid photos and videos of Chernobyl