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Known as: Science and Technology
1 title in the archive · first depicted 1986
Lived1936 – 1988
Soviet chemist who led the investigation into the origins of the Chernobyl disaster and took his own life on its second anniversary.
Shelfmark Vita CCLIV
3 years of a 52 year life depicted onscreen
Distinct years the archive depicts, against Valery Legasov’s lifetime (1936 – 1988) — 5.8% 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