https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.1.104. Liashko, 'On the Reliability of Measures taken for Dosimetric Inspection of Contaminated Environment and Food Products'. Virginia Gewin. Wilson Center History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive. Research Guides: HIS 100 - Perspectives in History: Chernobyl Florida Gov. The History and Public Policy Program strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, to facilitate scholarship based on those records, and to use these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs. 4: The Story of Chernobyl in Documents. V.A."' These excerpts from the official working copy of Politburo sessions were published by Rudolph Pikhoia. Primary Sources - Rights and Responsibilities of the Chernobyl Accident Geist explores the role of management's failure in the Chernobyl incident in this academic article. Filters were also analyzed from Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska. Memorial to Those who Saved the World,Chernobyl, Ukraine (Wikipedia), Declassified documents detail highest-level reactions, cover-ups, critiques, Sources include Politburo notes, diaries, protocols never before translated into English, Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Sarah Dunn, Brooke Lennox with Alla Yaroshinskaya, For more information, contact: The document lists the extent to which various information related to Chernobyl which should be classified, and for what reasons certain items may be shared. National Security Archive. During the experiment the technicians violated several rules in place for operating the reactor.During the experiment, the emergency shutdown system was turned off. The memo notes images of fire trucks and other personnel in the area, but those were dispatched to the reactor after the accident. July 24th, 1973 Memo Report from Tiutiunnik, Chief of the Kiev-Sviatoshinskii District Department of the KGB Administration, to the Acting Director of the KGB Administration, Comrade G.I. The report said despite the high rate of cancer, only 15 fatalities in these 7,000 cases have occurred.THE DOCUMENTS - Chernobyl Primary DocumentsCIA FILES215 pages of CIA files dating from 1971 to 1991.The files cover the Soviet Union's atomic energy program; The effect of the Chernobyl accident on the Soviet nuclear power program; and the social and political ramifications of the accident in the Soviet Union.A 1981 report covers the less publicized Soviet nuclear "accident" near Kyshtym in 1957-58.Media reporting of the nuclear accident near Kyshtym first appeared in 1958. Chernobyl in the News April-May 1986 | Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster The author Adam Higginbotham, whose book Midnight in Chernobyl (2019) illuminates the tragedy with quotations from his hundreds of interviews, also relied on a trove of Soviet-era documents collected by the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in Kiev. Yakovlev () as of 09:00 hours on May 6th, the total number of the hospitalized amounted to 3,454 peoplethe number stricken with radiation sickness amounted to 367 people. According to the protocols, the number of the sick is growing every day. (HDA SBU, Fond 11, Sprava 992, Tom 29). Fax: 202/994-7005Contact by email. The first protocol reviews necessary measures to combat the damage done by the explosion in energy block 4. The report quotes students mainly from the Middle East who discuss various rumors about the cause of the accidentthat it was political revenge, punishment for Communists, or karma.