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- Jared Harris as Valery Legasov
- Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina
- Jessie Buckley as Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of fireman Vasily Ignatenko
- Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief-engineer of Chernobyl
- Jared Harris As Valery Legasov, Scientist. Valery Legasov was the deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and was part of the team responsible for investigating the accident at Chernobyl.
- Jessie Buckley As Lyudmila Ignatenko, Vasily's Wife. Lyudmila, wife of the firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, faced a heartbreaking two weeks watching her husband die in agony.
- Stellan Skarsgard As Boris Shcherbina, Deputy Prime Minister. In 1976, Shcherbina became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and kept the position until his death.
- Adam Nagaitis As Vasily Ignatenko, A Pripyat Firefighter. Vasily Ignatenko, husband of Lyudmila, was one of the many firefighters that were first on the scene of the roof fire, unaware of the true extent of the situation.
May 7, 2019 · HBO's new miniseries Chernobyl is out now, here's who's who in the cast - in our guide to their real life counterparts
- Jared Harris as Valery Legasov, Scientist
- Adam Nagaitis as Vasily Ignatenko, A Pripyat Firefighter
- Jessie Buckley as Lyudmila Ignatenko, Vasily’s Wife
- Stellan Skarsgard as Boris Shcherbina, Deputy Prime Minister
- Sam Troughton as Aleksandr Akimov, Shift Supervisor of The Night Crew
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- Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov, Supervisor
- David Dencik as Mikhail Gorbachev
- Con O’Neill as Viktor Bryukhanov, Plant Director
- Adrian Rawlins as Nikolai Fomin, Chief Engineer
As deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Valery Legasov was part of the team responsible for investigating the accident at Chernobyl. Those above Legasov sought to cover up what caused the disaster, but he stayed determined, to be honest about the event. This put a great deal of strain on both his professional and personal li...
The first firefighters on the scene didn’t know the extent of the disaster. They were responding to what they thought was a simple roof fire. Vasily Ignatenko, one of those firefighters, came face to face with the exposed reactor. He and many of his colleagues soon began to show the symptoms of extreme radiation sickness. Vasily died two weeks late...
Lyudmila had a tough go of it. Wife of firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, she watched her husband melt away slowly and excruciatingly. Pregnant at the time, Lyudmila was warned by doctors to stay away from her husband. She ignored those warnings, and though her baby was born it died weeks later from complications.
In 1984, Shcherbina became vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers. He was in charge of crisis management for the Chernobyl disaster.
When Akimov first heard something was wrong he didn’t believe it. Though when he finally realized what was happening he stayed behind to do damage control. Akimov and some of his crew manually fed water into the reactor core without protective gear. Their sacrifice made up for their initial delay but cost them their lives.
Several civil and military personnel were called upon to clean up the disaster site. These men were known as the Chernobyl liquidators. Their work is credited with limiting the longterm damage of the disaster.
Anatoly Dyatlov was the deputy chief engineer and the reason for the disaster. He was supervising the test that caused the explosion. After intimidating the crew into increasing the reactor’s power, it eventually exploded. For his actions, Dyatlov was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union. Much to the anger of the rest of the world, he waited 18 days before he issued a statement about what exactly happened at Chernobyl.
Bryukhanov received a report from Akimov there was a serious radiation accident but an intact reactor, and that’s what he reported to the deputy secretary for the nuclear power industry. Unfortunately, the severely underestimated the amount of radiation.
Chief engineer Fomin was told about the destroyed reactor, but he refused to believe it. He ordered more water pumped to the reactor which caused radioactive debris to flow through the rest of the plant causing contamination and short-circuiting much of the wiring. Fomin was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp.
- Jared Harris As Valery Legasov, Scientist. Valery Legasov, played by Jared Harris on the show, was the deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy.
- Jessie Buckley As Lyudmila Ignatenko, Vasily’s Wife. Image source: Firefighter Vasily Ignatenko’s wife, Lyudmila, went through tough times after the accident.
- Stellan Skarsgard As Boris Shcherbina, Deputy Prime Minister. In 1976, Shcherbina became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and kept the position until his death.
- Sam Troughton As Aleksandr Akimov, Shift Supervisor Of The Night Crew. On the night of the disaster, Aleksandr Akimov was the shift supervisor. Upon first hearing the news that something isn’t right, he didn’t believe it and for the next few hours relied on the false information given by his superiors.
Jun 6, 2019 · 1. Jared Harris as Valery Legasov, Scientist. Valery Legasov was the deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy who was also responsible for investigating the Chernobyl...
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May 23, 2019 · As you’d expect from a dramatic retelling of the nuclear disaster, the show is based on the lives and important roles of real people, from scientists, firefighters and political officials played by...
