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Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is primarily known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
One of the first to grasp the scale of the catastrophe, Valery Legasov was on hand to mitigate the consequences. His decisions helped save millions of lives, but he paid the ultimate price.
Jun 3, 2019 · Valery Legasov was in charge of investigating the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He then killed himself on the two-year anniversary. Despite receiving worldwide praise for his candor in handling the disaster, he was nonetheless criticized and ostracized by his Soviet peers.
Jun 4, 2019 · The one noticeable mistake in this respect concerns the series makers’ apparent ignorance of the vast divisions between different socioeconomic classes in the Soviet Union: in the series, Valery...
Apr 26, 2019 · Valery Legasov, Nuclear Energy Institute First Deputy Director (right), was active investigation expert of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.
Jul 3, 2019 · The fight to avert an even worse disaster was led by a chemist for the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, a man by the name of Valery Legasov, a tragic figure as much as he was a hero.
Apr 30, 1988 · Valery A. Legasov, a physical chemist who headed the commission that investigated the Chernobyl nuclear power accident, died on Wednesday, Soviet media announced today. He was 51 years old.
Jun 6, 2019 · Valery Legasov was an inorganic chemist specializing in noble gases and became a key member of the Soviet government’s investigation into the Chernobyl disaster less than 24 hours after it occurred.
Jun 14, 2019 · Jared Harris played Valery Legasov in the HBO miniseries, Chernobyl. / Photo: HBO. From the moment he joined the official commission at Chernobyl, he became a crucial figure in crisis management—even though he wasn’t an expert in RBMK-1000 reactors (as depicted in the series).
Dec 15, 2022 · Who exactly was Valery Legasov? Why was he involved in the Chernobyl disaster? How did he become one of the most important people behind the "clean-up"?
