This audiobook will allow the reader to form their own opinion about the Chernobyl disaster in spite of pseudoscientific theories and politicized populist schemes.The Chernobyl disaster occurred more than 30 years ago, but disputes about its causes, consequences and organization of work on elimination of these consequences. Chernobyl revealed many problems that go far beyond the Chernobyl theme: ethical, environmental, political. The Soviet system as a whole, and even technological progress itself, were compromised in the minds of many by this accident. To answer questions arising in connection with Chernobyl, knowledge is needed - what actually happened on April 26, 1986.This audiobook is based on unique materials: interviews, articles and memoirs of Academician Valery Legasov, one of the leaders elimination of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, who was the first in the USSR and in the world as a whole to analyze the consequences of the disaster and the first to talk about them in detail. In addition to them, the audiobook includes articles on the technological and political aspects of the disaster, written using both modern materials and previously unpublished archival documents.Copyright© Solovyov S.M., Kudryakov N.N., Subbotin D.V., 2020© ℗ AST Publishing House LLC, Audiobook, 2020Audio producer: Tatyana Plyuta

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