13 December 2022 In 2018, the "Relay of Generations" round table was held in the Chernihiv Historical Museum named after V.V. Tarnovsky as part of the event "Burned by Nuclear Hell", on the occasion of the Day of Liquidators of the Consequences of the Chernobyl NPP Accident.
Do 2006 In 2015, the Decree of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, established the Day of Commemoration of the Participants in the Liquidation of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident, which is celebrated annually 14 December - on the day of completion of the construction of the sarcophagus over the destroyed fourth power unit of the Chornobyl NPP.
The round table was organized on the initiative of the NGO "Soyuz Chornobyl". Veteran liquidators were present at the event, representatives of the modern Armed Forces of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Chernihiv Regional Council Dmytro Blaush, Valentina Luhova, Director of the Department of Social Protection of the Population of Chernihiv State Administration. Representatives of the government and local self-government bodies awarded honorary degrees to the present "Chernobyl residents" and expressed gratitude for their heroism in the fight against the radiation threat. Representatives of the Operational Command "North" also addressed the liquidators with words of gratitude and congratulations and presented their Certificates of Honor. Anatoly Ligun, head of the "Soyuz Chornobyl" union, reminded those present about the dramatic events, related to the disaster, about the participation of servicemen of various branches of the military in liquidation of the consequences of the accident. His report was supplemented by Svitlana Zemlyanska, senior researcher of the museum. Museum workers, починаючи з 1986 year, collected exhibits (фото, documents), which make it possible to recreate the hard work of all those, who participated in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident, which had the scale of a planetary catastrophe. Later, the museum became a place, where not only museum objects were stored, and a platform for communication, where meetings of residents of Chernobyl and youth took place, schoolchildren of the city. In addition to the permanent section in the exposition of the Military Historical Museum - a branch of the Chernihiv Historical Museum. Exhibitions were created before the jubilee dates of V.V. Tarnovsky, new materials were collected, which reproduced modern reality, the state of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant itself and the 30-kilometer exclusion zone.
The speech of the former liquidator was interesting, currently director of the Chornobyl Cultural and Information Center Volodymyr Alekseenko. He supplemented the story about the current state of the exclusion zone and the presence of Russian troops there in February-March 2022 year. Especially, about the threat and danger of criminal seizure of Ukraine's nuclear power plants by the enemy.
Svitlana Zemlyanska, senior researcher
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