Worldwide, April 26, on the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, will commemorate the victims of the tragedy.

The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred on April 26, 1986. The fourth power unit of the station was completely destroyed, and a huge amount of radioactive substances.

During the explosion, only one person died, another one died in the morning from the injuries. Subsequently, 134 employees of the Chernobyl NPP and members of the rescue teams stationed at the station during the explosion developed radiation sickness, within a period of several months 28 of them died.

From 1986 to 1992, according to official data, 600,000 people took part in eliminating the consequences of the accident, more than a million people were involved in work in the 30-kilometer zone.

The first report on the Chernobyl accident appeared in the Soviet media on April 27, only 36 hours after the explosion at the fourth reactor.

On the next anniversary of the network began to appear the first posts in which people honor the memory of those who died at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

"31 years ago the largest ecological disaster in the history of mankind took place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman wrote in Twitter.

Earlier, the "Observer" prepared a special project for the 30th anniversary of the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

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