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Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov (Ukrainian: Леонід Федорович Топтунов, Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Топтунов; 16 August 1960 – 14 May 1986) was a Soviet electrical engineer who was the senior reactor control chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl ...
Apr 26, 2019 · Vera Toptunova, the mother of Leonid Toptunov, who was a senior reactor control engineer at the Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant when it exploded on April 26, 1986, mourns over...
Jul 2, 2019 · Then the reactor control engineer who was at the desk, in control of the reactor, was Leonid Toptunov, who was only 25 at the time, had been in his position for only two months.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster of April 26, 1986, is one such moment. At the heart of this catastrophic event were two young engineers, Leonid Toptunov and Aleksandr Akimov, who found themselves in the control room of Reactor No. 4 on that fateful night.
Apr 26, 2019 · That same day, one of the members of the plant staff, 25-year-old Leonid Toptunov, the nuclear engineer manning the control desk of reactor number four at the moment of the explosion, sent a telegram from his room in the specialized radiological Hospital No. 6 in Moscow, to his mother in Estonia.
Apr 22, 2019 · Glukhov hung up and phoned his friend Leonid Toptunov, on the senior reactor control engineer’s desk of Unit Four. But nobody answered. Strange, he thought. Maybe he’s busy. He tried Control ...
Apr 27, 2014 · Some of the workers who died were his friends, including Leonid Toptunov, a young reactor operator who was in the Unit 4 control room that night. Mr.
