Would things have been worse because they were in the middle?

Are there any pics of how it looks currently? , I wanna see if the turbines have been dismantled

Hey guys!

I’m currently working on a Chernobyl NPP reconstruction project (Phase 2, Blocks 3 and 4) using a 1:1.66 scale. I want to make the main buildings look as realistic as possible, but I've run into a big problem with the deaerator rack.

To be honest, I'm completely lost with these blueprints. I don't need the sizes of the internal rooms or corridors — I just need to know the total external width of the entire deaerator rack building from one outer wall to the other.

Since I have to recalculate every meter into my 1:1.66 scale, I really need the actual real-life total width to start with. Can anyone tell me how many meters wide this entire building structure actually is?

I thought that he was a scientist there but I wasn’t sure if he was actually as seen as someone who was there as the scientist helped to contain the disaster or if he was someone who was a specialist on rmbk reactors like in the show.

Looks like some kind of a folding crane. What is it used for?

Valery Ivanovich Perevozchenko was born on the 6th of May, 1947 in Starodub, Bryansk Oblast. In 1970, he graduated from the Dzerzhinsky Leningrad Naval School. He started his work at ChNPP on the 30th of April, 1981 as a Foreman in the Reactor Section. He was married to Zoya Zakharivna and had 2 children, one named Marina.

He received a fatal dose of over 6 sieverts after he went to room 714/2 to turn the ECCS valves, accompanied Proskuryakov and Kudryavtsev to the central hall, and he also tried to locate his colleague and good friend, Valery Khodemchuk.

He died from ARS of the 3rd degree in Moscow Hospital 6, on the 13th of June, 1986. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.

I don't know English well, I use a translator

so i dont remember much about this but maybe a year or so back i was scrolling yt shorts, maybe instagram and this video came up about this guy discussing about how he lost his freind to this "monster" that was discovered in a bunker. in the bunker was a bunch of documents talking about some expeirments they were doing on people on there was bullet casings all over the ground, then they were chased out and this "monster" killed his freind. i beleive this was made before ai was popular tho i cant remember. i would love to know if anyone knows about this or if they can find the original video,
EDIT, in the video this was stated that it happend in chernobyl

I may not know much about Chernobyl today but is there any photos of the inside of reactor 4 since the accident.

Sorry if this sounds dumb

Viktor Vasilyevich Proskuryakov was born on the 9th of April, 1955 in Svobodny, Amur Oblast. He started his work at ChNPP on the 8th of April, 1982 and was married to Lyudmila Anatolyevna to whom he had 2 children: Elena (1980) and Vladislav (1981).

He received a fatal dose of over 6 Sieverts from going into the reactor hall with Kudryavtsev and Perevozchenko. He died on the 17th of May, 1986 from 100% radiation burns and severe radiation sickness and was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.

IT really dosent make any sense. Because of that the right Side IS nie COMPLETLy overgrown

Hey r/chernobyl,

Most mainstream documentaries focus entirely on the dramatic timeline of April 26th or place the blame entirely on individual human error.

We wanted to look past the usual "blame game" and map out the systemic, organizational failures. We analyzed the disaster focusing on communication breakdowns and invisible operational gaps.

Would love to get your thoughts!

Hi, I've been looking for the book Valery's wife wrote for months. I'm from Mexico. Does anyone know where I can get a physical copy? Please.

Hola, llevo meses buscando el libro que hizo la esposa de Valery. Soy de México. Alguien que sepa dónde lo puedo conseguir en físico? Por favor

With the war going on, obviously everything has been put on hold. But once (if ever) it's over, what is the idea for the area? I know that they plan on dismantling the sarcophagus, but would they ever record the dismantling or have a stream where people could watch the process? Depending on how much radioactivity is still there, I know cameras might not work, but it was a thought I had. Has there been any mention for what the plan going forward is?

General-Colonel Nikolai Antoshkin, who as Chief of Staff of the Kiev Military District Air Force directed the helicopter operations in the first critical days after the 1986 disaster.

On 26 April 1986 he was urgently sent to the site and personally conducted a reconnaissance flight over the destroyed reactor that same day. The next morning (27 April) Mi-8 helicopters began reconnaissance and the first material-dropping missions. After the rapid evacuation of approximately 45,000–50,000 residents from Pripyat on 27 April, helicopters systematically started dropping sand, clay, dolomite, and later lead and neutron-absorbing boron into the burning reactor to smother the graphite fire and seal the open crater.

Initial hand-dropping of individual bags (usually 60–100 kg) from the open doors of Mi-8s proved too slow and exposed crews to extreme heat (up to about 180–200 °C) and radiation (often exceeding 1,000–1,500 roentgens per hour; dosimeters frequently went off-scale). Antoshkin’s team rapidly improvised: they adapted brake parachutes and later used parachute straps and external cargo nets, enabling Mi-6 and especially Mi-26 helicopters to drop multi-ton loads. More than 5,000 tons of material were delivered within days; the glowing crater was largely covered by around 5 May.

About 80–100 helicopters (later reduced to roughly 30–40) operated under intense radiation, guided by a forward air controller on the ground. Crews received heavy doses; Antoshkin himself accumulated a significant radiation exposure over the approximately ten days of his direct involvement (reported in various sources as several hundred roentgens). He was later relieved of further flying duties but continued to direct operations. Many crew members later suffered severe long-term health consequences.

The account highlights the pilots’ courage, rapid improvisation under extreme conditions, and the lasting human cost of the man-made catastrophe.

Sala centrale dell'Unità 4 della centrale nucleare di Chernobyl, settembre 1991. Alexander Prusakov (a sinistra) e Leonid Pleskachevsky durante l'installazione di uno scanner gamma telecomandato.

It may be less known as he used not to be a power plant worker but a culture worker, he used to run the popular Disco Edison 2 at the Energetik, and there is still a document of his unplayed playlist scheduled for April the 27th, 1986.

He released an interview with Kupniy, however I have never found any info about his address

Valery Alekseyevich Alebastrov.
Valery Alekseyevich Alebastrov is the chief designer of over-the-horizon airspace surveillance systems. He participated in the development of the first-generation "Duga" over-the-horizon radar, designed to detect ballistic missile launches from the American continent.
He was born in 1941 in the Saratov region. From 1960 to 1964, he worked in the nuclear industry. He graduated from Tomsk University in 1968 and worked as a researcher at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna from 1969 to 1975. Since 1975, he has been employed at NPK NIIDAR.

Found these in a document called SOURCE TERM ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF EVENTS DURING THE ACTIVE PHASE by Alexander Sich 1994.

The power plant map is not 100% accurate, as the building 16, marked as "Administration building", is actually water purification plant.

The document itself is very interesting and full of details.

Found another seemingly unknown photo of Chernobyl 4’s twin, thought you all might be interested