Entrance to zone of alienation around Chernobyl

This is a list of Chernobyl-related articles.

Disaster and effects

* Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases **

Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents To date, the nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima Daiichi (2011) nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power sta ...

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two n ...

* Effects of the Chernobyl disaster * Chernobyl necklace * Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident, adopted in direct response to Chernobyl * Cultural impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster * Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster *

Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster that occurred in the early hours of 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. The accident occurred when Reactor Number 4 exploded and destroyed most of the r ...

* Radiophobia * Threat of the Dnieper reservoirs

Russo-Ukrainian War

Battle of Chernobyl During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured on 24 February (the first day of the invasion) by the Russian Armed Forces, who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire ...

Places and geography

Power plant

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP; ; ), is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Belarus–Ukraine borde ...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus , image = Chernobylreactor 1.jpg , caption = The sarcophagus in 2006. The tall chimney is an original part of the reactor building. , location = Covering Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, within the ...

Chernobyl New Safe Confinement The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter, rarely Arka) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disas ...

Exclusion zone

* Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone, also known as the Zone of Alienation *

Pripyat Pripyat ( ; russian: При́пять), also known as Prypiat ( uk, При́пʼять, , ), is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1 ...

, abandoned city *

Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about n ...

, semi-abandoned city * Kopachi, abandoned village * Poliske, abandoned town * Red Forest

Other

* Slavutych, city established in 1986 after the disaster * Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl), an extremely radioactive lump of corium in the reactor

Media

Non-fiction

* '' The Bell of Chernobyl'', a documentary film * ', a documentary film * '' Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment'', a Russian scientific publication * '' Chernobyl Heart'', a documentary film * Chornobyl.3828, a Ukrainian documentary film * * ''

The Russian Woodpecker ''The Russian Woodpecker'' is a 2015 documentary film written, produced and directed by Chad Gracia following Fedor Alexandrovich's investigation into the Chernobyl disaster. It is Gracia's directorial debut feature. The film premiered in the " ...

'', a documentary film * TORCH report, a scientific report * ''

The Truth About Chernobyl ''The Truth About Chernobyl'' is a 1991 book by Grigori Medvedev. Medvedev served as deputy chief engineer at the No. 1 reactor unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant while the plant was under construction. At the time of the Chernobyl disast ...

'', a memoir book * '' Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster'', a book * '' Voices from Chernobyl'', a documentary film * ''

White Horse A white horse is born predominantly white and stays white throughout its life. A white horse has mostly pink skin under its hair coat, and may have brown, blue, or hazel eyes. "True white" horses, especially those that carry one of the dominant ...

'', a documentary film

Fiction

* ''

Aurora An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), also commonly known as the polar lights, is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of bri ...

'', a 2006 film * '' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', a video game * ''

'', a 2019 TV series * ''

'', a novel by

Frederik Pohl Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellit ...

* '' Chernobyl: Abyss'', a 2021 Russian disaster film * ''

Chernobyl Diaries ''Chernobyl Diaries'' is a 2012 American disaster horror film co-written and produced by Oren Peli and directed by Brad Parker, in his directorial debut. The film stars Jonathan Sadowski, Jesse McCartney, Devin Kelley, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Ingr ...

'', a 2012 disaster horror film * '' Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion'', a Russian TV series * ''

Chernobylite Chernobylite is a technogenic compound, a crystalline zirconium silicate with a high (up to 10%) content of uranium as a solid solution. It was discovered in the corium produced in the Chernobyl disaster, a lava-like glassy material formed in ...

'', a 2021 science fiction survival video game * ', a 1990 Soviet film * ', a 2017 film * ', a 2015 film * ', a film *
Stalking the Atomic City. Life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl
', a novel by

Markiyan Kamysh Markiyan Kamysh ( uk, Маркіян Камиш, born 19 October 1988) is a Ukrainian novelist. Biography Markiyan Kamysh is the only person who represents the Chernobyl underground in literature. Since 2010, he has been illegally exploring the ...

about illegal trips to Chernobyl * ' * ', a film * '' S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl'', a video game * '' Wolves Eat Dogs'', a novel by

Martin Cruz Smith Martin Cruz Smith (born November 3, 1942) is an American mystery novelist. He is best known for his nine-novel series (to date) on Russian investigator Arkady Renko, who was first introduced in 1981 with '' Gorky Park''. Early life and educat ...

Organizations

* Bellesrad *

Chernobyl Children's Project International Chernobyl Children International (CCI) is a non-profit, international development, medical, and humanitarian organisation that works with children, families and communities that continue to be affected by the economic outcome of the 1986 Cherno ...

Chernobyl Forum The Chernobyl Forum is the name of a group of UN agencies, founded on 3–5 February 2003 at the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Headquarters in Vienna, to scientifically assess the health effects and environmental consequences of the ...

* Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme *

Chernobyl Shelter Fund The Chernobyl Shelter Fund (CSF) was set up in December 1997 with the purpose of funding the Shelter Implementation Plan (SIP). The aim of the fund is to create conditions for the dismantling and decomposition of the radiation contaminated structure ...

* Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity * Friends of Chernobyl's Children *

List of Chernobyl-related charities This is an incomplete list of Chernobyl-related charities and charitable organisations that were created in response to the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, or whose work involves supporting those suffering the ongoing effects: United Kingdom's * C ...

Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum The Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum ('' uk, Український національний музей "Чорнобиль", Ukrayins'kyy natsional'nyy muzey "Chornobyl'"'') is a history museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, dedicated to the 1986 Cherno ...

People

* Alexander Akimov, block 4 shift leader * Yury Bandazhevsky, Belarusian scientist who was jailed 4 years possibly because of his investigations on Chernobyl's consequences *

Viktor Bryukhanov Viktor Petrovich Bryukhanov ( uk, Віктор Петрович Брюханов, russian: Виктор Петрович Брюханов; 1 December 1935 – 12 October 2021) was the manager of construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ...

, plant director *

Anatoly Dyatlov Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov (russian: Анатолий Степанович Дятлов, uk, Анатолій Степанович Дятлов; 3 March 1931 – 13 December 1995) was a Soviet engineer who was the deputy chief engineer for the ...

, plant vice chief engineer, the test supervisor * Elena Filatova, Ukrainian photographer known for her website, containing a photo-essay of purported solo motorcycle rides through Chernobyl's

zone of alienation The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, Belarusian: Хона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС, ''Zona adčužennia Čarnobyĺskaj AES'', russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС ...

Nikolai Fomin Nikolai Maximovich Fomin (, ; born 1937 in Novoekonomichne, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian engineer. He was the chief engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant from 1981 until the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Galina Tr ...

, plant chief engineer *

Vasily Ignatenko Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko ( uk, Василь Іванович Ігнатенко; be, Васіль Іванавіч Ігнаценка; russian: Василий Иванович Игнатенко; 13 March 1961 – 13 May 1986) was a Soviet fi ...

, firefighter *

Valery Khodemchuk Valery Ilyich Khodemchuk ( uk, Валерій Ілліч Ходемчук; russian: Валерий Ильич Ходемчук; 24 March 195126 April 1986) was a Soviet engineer who was the night shift circulating pump operator at the Chernobyl ...

, shift circulating pump operator *

Viktor Kibenok Viktor Nikolaevich Kibenok ( ua, Віктор Миколайович Кібенок, russian: Виктор Николаевич Кибенок; 17 February 1963 11 May 1986) was a Chernobyl firefighter who was posthumously awarded the title He ...

, firefighter shift leader * Valeri Legasov, chief of the investigation committee of the Chernobyl disaster *

Liquidator (Chernobyl) Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limit ...

, people who took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster * Vassili Nesterenko, physicist from Belarus involved as a liquidator, and working on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster * Vladimir Pikalov, headed the Chemical Troops of the USSR, on-scene military commander *

Volodymyr Pravyk Volodymyr Pavlovych Pravyk ( uk, Володимир Павлович Правик, russian: Владимир Павлович Правик, translit=Vladimir Pravik; 13 June 1962 – 11 May 1986) was a Soviet firefighter notable for his role ...

, firefighter *

Adi Roche Adi Patricia Roche (born 11 July 1955) is an Irish activist, anti-nuclear advocate, and campaigner for peace, humanitarian aid and education. She founded and is CEO of Chernobyl Children's Project International. She has focused on the relief ...

, chief executive of the charity

Chernobyl Children International Chernobyl Children International (CCI) is a non-profit, international development, medical, and humanitarian organisation that works with children, families and communities that continue to be affected by the economic outcome of the 1986 Chernob ...

* Boris Shcherbina, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, supervised the crisis management *

Wladimir Tchertkoff Wladimir Tchertkoff is an Italian journalist. He released with Emanuela Andreoli in 2003 the film ''The Sacrifice'', a documentary on the liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This film received an award from the Île-de-France counc ...

, Journalist who made documentary films featuring the liquidators *

Leonid Telyatnikov Leonid Petrovich Telyatnikov ( uk, Леонід Петрович Телятніков; 25 January 1951 – 2 December 2004) was a Soviet, and later Ukrainian, fire brigade commander notable for his role in directing the early stages initial respo ...

, firefighter, head of the plant fire department *

Leonid Toptunov Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov ( uk, Леонід Федорович Топтунов, russian: Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов; 16 August 1960 – 14 May 1986) was a Soviet engineer who was the senior reactor control chief engineer a ...

, shift reactor control engineer