The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
Danila Kozlovsky
Oksana Akinshina
Philipp Avdeev
Ravshana Kurkova
Arthur Beschastny
Nikolay Kozak
Igor Chernevich
Anton Shvarts
Andrey Archakov
Samvel Tadevossian
Dmitry Beseda
Pavel Davydov
Dmitry Matveev
Mariya Abramova
Daniela Bogatyreva
Alexander Alyabyev
Nikolay Samsonov
Mariya Ulyanova
Anatoly Prosalov
Alina Milkova
Margarita Mezina
Ekaterina Mezina
Pavel Chernyavskiy
Nataliya Blazhievskaya
Petr Tereschenko
Andrey Kazakov
Kai Aleks Getts
Saveliy Albutov
Polina Raykina
Elvira Kekeyeva
Yuliya Dzhulai
Anna-Mariya Danilenko
Anastasiya Kuimova
Aleksandr Kudrenko
Olga Makeeva
Yury Oborotov
Dmitriy Podnozov
Vladimir Simonov
Vladimir Svirskiy
Anna Dubrovskaya
Vladislav Abashin
Yelena Voronchikhina
Anton Filipenko
Oleg Ryazantsev
Alexandra Cherkasova
Yury Mezhevich
Gleb Puskepalis
Anna Shatilova
Maxim Blinov
Ren Hanami
Svetlana Kotova
Tatiana Kargaeva