Military officers and traffic police

Documentary Heritage Related to accident at Chernobyl.

Military officers and traffic police in the car on the contaminated area after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant named after V.I. Lenin. Pripyat, Kyiv Oblast, 1986.

The Documentary Heritage Related to accident at Chernobyl records the explosion that took place on 26 April 1986 in the 4th unit of Chernobyl NPP in Ukraine and affected surrounding countries. Different times actualizes different aspects of the disaster, which have results in very different spheres – social, political, economic, medical, ecological, psychological and moral. The archives, created in the Soviet Union and declassified by Ukraine, are crucial for understanding its nature and its socio-political impact; such as its building and development, the accident’s initial handling and aftermath.