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1 title in the archive · first depicted 1986
Lived1931 – 1995
Deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl, who supervised the test that destroyed Reactor 4 and was later imprisoned for his role in the disaster.
Shelfmark Vita CCXLVIII
3 years of a 64 year life depicted onscreen
Distinct years the archive depicts, against Anatoly Dyatlov’s lifetime (1931 – 1995) — 4.7% of it.
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Event
The explosion of reactor 4 on April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, in what is now modern-day Ukraine, that resulted in a massive release of radioactive material and an intensive ensuing cleanup operation.
filed under 1986
Runs throughCold War