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Valery Legasov

This person was a deputy at the Kurchatov Institute and headed the Communist Party Committee there. He was a physicist who came from a privileged background. He delivered the party line about the Chernobyl reactor at the IAEA in Vienna after the disaster.

Victor Brukhanov

This person was the Chernobyl nuclear plant director at the time of the accident and he helped build the reactor and the city that sprang up around it.

Nikolai Fomin

This person was the chief engineer at the nuclear plant.

Anatoly Dyatlov

This person was the deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl who oversaw Units Three and Four and hired and trained personnel.

Alexander Akimov

This person was the shift foreman when the nuclear accident happened. He was responsible for overseeing the test that lead to the meltdown and tried to stop the test from being conducted.

Leonid Toptunov

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