Oleksiy Ananenko
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Oleksiy Ananenko | |
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| Олексій Ананенко | |
.jpg) Ananenko in 2011 | |
| Born | 13 October 1959 |
| Awards | Hero of Ukraine |
Oleksiy Mykhailovych Ananenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Михайлович Ананенко; born 13 October 1959) is a Ukrainian mechanical engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Biography
[edit]After the Chernobyl disaster, he was part of the three-man "suicide squad"[1] that drained the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building, since he was very familiar with the layout of the building. Although his feat was quickly forgotten in the wake of the disaster, he was awarded the Order for Courage in 2018 and the title Hero of Ukraine in 2019.[2][3][4][5]
Despite media reports claiming the three men died of radiation poisoning shortly after the incident, he survived and lives in Kyiv as of 2019.[6]
In Media
[edit]Ananenko was portrayed by Baltasar Breki Samper in the Sky/HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kramer, Sarah. "A Chernobyl 'suicide squad' of volunteers helped save Europe — here's their amazing true story". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ Silver, Lionel Ray (1987). Fallout from Chernobyl. Deneau. ISBN 978-0-88879-140-5.
- ^ "Real life Chernobyl diver reveals what really happened". Hindustan Times. 2019-06-14. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №468/2019
- ^ "Hero of Chernobyl: An Interview with Engineer Alexei Ananenko". Ex Utopia. 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
- ^ "Chernobyl survivors assess fact and fiction in TV series". BBC News. 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2023-10-09.