What to read if, after the series "Chernobyl" still have questions
Books / / December 19, 2019
1. "Chepnobylskaya prayer: hponika future" Alexiyevich
Laureate in Literature Nobel Prize Alexiyevich talked with dozens of unwitting witnesses of the tragedy. Her book consists of monologues, firefighters, doctors, accident liquidators and relatives of those who died.
Aleksievich gives a chance to speak to anyone who lives divided into two parts - before and after the tragedy. The writer puts like a picture from small pieces, including her as the most terrible moments - fear, pain, betrayal - and the beauty that can not be destroyed, - love, loyalty and honour.
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2. "Chernobyl, Pripyat, etc. Nowhere ..." Arthur Shigapov
Arthur Shigapov - compiler of the book guides for popular destinations with travelers, such as Bali Thailand. But "Chernobyl, Pripyat, etc. Nowhere ..." - it is rather antiputevoditel telling about the place where you should not go.
The book opens with historical information about the nuclear power plant, the consequences of explosions and evacuations. Further, the author describes his journey through an abandoned area with all the details. He shares how got on a tour of the exclusion zone, he needed to do and to whom he was referring. The book is illustrated with the author's photographs, which reflect the current reality of Chernobyl.
3. "The Passion of the Chernobyl" Vladimir Gubarev
Journalist Vladimir Gubarev has appeared on the scene a few hours after the explosions. Then people still little understood what a terrible accident occurred and how long it will be and devastating consequences.
In 2011 Gubarev published a book in which the collected stories, explanatory notes, reports and other documents. Some materials were collected in hot pursuit, just a week after the explosion. Interview same Gubarev spent even 20 years after the accident. Thus it restores the chronology of events through the eyes of witnesses, providing her personal notes and comments, because he, too, had been there and he has something to say.
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4. "Living force. Diary of a liquidator ", Sergey Mirnyi
The book begins with the text of the agenda, which came to the author. It was pointed out, where, how much, what and why to come to the district military enlistment office. So the story of Sergei Peace began and his companions, who were sent to eliminate the consequences of the explosion at the plant through the Chernobyl a few months after the disaster.
The author - a chemist and expert on radiation, Lectured around the world. Peaceful included in the book of the technical details, but still it is focused on people, their stories and struggles.
5. "Black and White Chernobyl", Evgeny Orel
A couple of months before the accident, in February 1986, a young specialist of financial department Evgeny Orel moved from Chernobyl, Pripyat. He reassured the agitated mother with the words:
"I read that in probability theory the possibility of an accident at a nuclear power plant - once in a hundred years!"
And to conquer the career ladder. This was followed by a series of explosions, disaster and evacuation.
Eagle tells his story of Pripyat. It is no description of the reactor and engineering calculations. It's about people's mood, fears, moments when nothing is clear, and that a peaceful life for ordinary citizens left behind.
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6. "Nuclear tan" (collection), Grigory Medvedev
Engineer Atomic Medvedev participated in the design of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. When the accident occurred, he was engaged in the liquidation of consequences and subjected to radiation, which led to the formation cancerous tumor.
His documentary novel is valuable not only because of the precision parts. Medvedev is not afraid to show the flaws and mistakes that were made and at the time of construction, and after the accident. Bureaucratic, technical and engineering miscalculations have developed into one of the worst disasters of the last century.
This compilation was released after the accident, but included in it the story "The Chernobyl Notebook" was written for a couple of years before the crash. Even then, the author was aware of the real danger due to negligence on many levels. Unfortunately, it was not possible to avoid the tragedy, and Medvedev calls not only do not forget about what happened, but also to learn from this serious lesson.
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