“And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a lamp, and fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of this star is “wormwood”…” says the Apocalypse. 30 years ago, many remembered that the inconspicuous fragrant grass of our fields - wormwood - has another name: Chernobyl... The poignant novel by the famous Orthodox writer Yulia Voznesenskaya “Star of Chernobyl” tells about the fate of three sisters, whose lives were crossed out by the Chernobyl disaster, and about love, which conquers fear, death and gives hope for the future. The work is published in Russia for the first time. Written in the best traditions of realistic Russian literature, the novel also includes documentary material taken by the author from Soviet newspapers, radio messages and television broadcasts, therefore it is valuable not only as a work of art, but also as historical evidence.