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Alexander Akimov (Sam Troughton) was the night crew shift supervisor during the early morning hours test that resulted in the reactor explosion. He was initially opposed to conducting the...
Sam Troughton as Aleksandr Akimov, the night shift supervisor at Chernobyl. Robert Emms as Leonid Toptunov , the senior engineer at Chernobyl. David Dencik as Mikhail Gorbachev , the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
Sam Troughton (on the left) as Aleksandr Akimov, shift supervisor of the night crew, in Chernobyl HBO TV series. Photo: HBO Akimov’s career path led him to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in September 1979.
Alexandr Akimov : Comrade Perevozchenko, what you're saying is physically impossible, the core can't explode. It has to be the tank. Anatoly Dyatlov : We're wasting time. Let's go!
More recently he starred in Chernobyl (2019) as Aleksandr Akimov. Between May and July 2019, he appeared in Rutherford and Son at the Royal National Theatre alongside Roger Allam. In 2020, Troughton starred in the biographical comedy drama film Mank, alongside a cast which included Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins and Charles Dance.
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May 7, 2019 · Sam Troughton is Alexander Akimov – foreman for the fifth shift of reactor Unit Four. Akimov wanted to shut down the test before the explosion but was overruled by Dyatlov.
