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Lyudmilla Ignatenko

Lyudmilla Ignatenko is a survivor from the Chernobyl Disaster. She has shared her experience with author Svetlana Alexievich, for her Nobel prize-winning 2015 book VVoices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster[1][2]. The book inspired the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (miniseries) released in 2019[1][2]. Her husband Vasily Ignatenko was a Soviet firefighter and one of the first responder at the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster.


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  1. ^ a b Jack O'Keefe:Lyudmilla Ignatenko From 'Chernobyl' Is Based On A Real Person & Her Story Is Just As Harrowing As The Show Depicts [1]
  2. ^ a b Will Stewart:True story behind Chernobyl firefighter's death - and his baby four months later [2]


Category:1961 births Category:1986 deaths Category:Chernobyl liquidators Category:Recipients of the Order of Gold Star (Ukraine) Category:Firefighters Category:Victims of radiological poisoning