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Known as: Political
1 title in the archive · first depicted 1986
Lived1919 – 1990
Shelfmark Vita CCXXV
2 years of a 71 year life depicted onscreen
Distinct years the archive depicts, against Boris Shcherbina’s lifetime (1919 – 1990) — 2.8% 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