The military traffic inspectorate

Documentary Heritage Related to accident at Chernobyl.

The head of the military traffic inspectorate of Sector No 2, officer A. Reshetnyak regulates the movement of vehicles headed to the area of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant named after V.I. Lenin. Chernobyl Raion, Kyiv Oblast, May 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.