The real Vasily Ignatenko passed away two weeks after being exposed to lethal amounts of radiation on the night of the disaster. The three divers weren’t volunteers Duty and heroism are two of ...

HBO's Chernobyl is not the story of ... to radiation as a result. Vasily died soon afterward due to complications from the exposure, and his death is depicted in gruesome detail on the show. Of ...

Vasily’s wife Lyudmilla Ignatenko told Svetlana Alexievich for her Nobel prize-winning 2015 book Voices of Chernobyl: The Oral History Of A Nuclear Disaster of the severity of radiation sickness ...

CHERNOBYL is the new historical drama series on HBO and Sky Atlantic and viewers are wondering if firefighter Vasily Ignatenko was a real person following the intense first episode. Here’s ...

The resulting death toll is disputed—U.N. agencies counted 4,000 deaths from the resulting radiation exposure, ... True Stories from Chernobyl Disaster ... Vasily Ignatenko was one of the first ...

Pregnant Lyudmilla Ignatenko watched in despair as the life of her husband, reduced to a "bloodied monster" by the Chernobyl blast, slowly ebbed away. Her partner Vasily, 25, was one of the first ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas ...

Lyudmila Ignatenko, who is depicted in the Emmy-winning limited series, recounted her last moments with her husband before he died from radiation poisoning One of the real-life people who inspired ...

LIUDMILLA Ignatenko knows all about nuclear disasters. After all, she watched her husband die from radiation exposure after Chernobyl. Widowed and now 48, she fears thousands of people in Japan ...

In one of the opening scenes of HBO's miniseries "Chernobyl," a firefighter named Vasily Ignatenko is called to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to put out a fire. His pregnant wife, Lyudmilla ...

The first time audiences see this aspect is when Lyudmilla goes to the hospital to see her very sick husband, Pripyat firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, who is dying from severe radiation sickness.

Vasily Ignatenko was one of the very first responders at the Chernobyl plant in Pripyat. He was 25 years old when he tended to the blaze along with other firefighters at Chernobyl.