'I felt deceived': the liquidator of the Chernobyl accident jumped out of the window after the TV series 'Chernobyl'

In Kazakhstan, after watching the HBO series “Chernobyl,” one of the liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant committed suicide. A resident of the city of Aktobe, 61-year-old Nagashibay Zhusupov, after watching the series, remembered those terrible days and that the authorities forgot about...

Airbnb offers Chernobyl-style apartments. A PHOTO

Their house is located in the center of the block where the show was filmed. According to the owners, he "appears constantly on the screen" on the HBO series. A young couple from Vilnius offered the fans of the series "Chernobyl" an unusual experience - to come to the area of ​​the city where the show was filmed and settle in ...

As a professor from Minsk tried in vain to convince the authorities to save people after the Chernobyl accident

“The normal [radiation level] is 10-15 [micro-roentgens per hour], which is what it was. I got into the car, drove in, took the equipment and drove to the Chernobyl zone. <…> It was around seven or eight in the evening that I drove there. I crossed Bobruisk, beyond Bobruisk somewhere on...

'Slander, defaming Soviet power': Russian communists demand to ban Chernobyl series

The Communists of Russia party appealed to Roskomnadzor with a demand to limit access to the American TV series Chernobyl on all trackers and resources. The party statement said that “in the Chernobyl series, a true tragedy became the object of ideological manipulation on the part of the HBO channel” and that the film...

America is to blame for everything: Russia is shooting its version of the Chernobyl series

Russian television offers its own patriotic view of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. In the new series, everything will be presented as a heroic attempt to thwart an American spy who infiltrated a nuclear facility. The announcement of filming his own version of events came in response to excellent ratings ...

'Perhaps one of the guys survived thanks to my help': monologue of the widow of an engineer who died at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

On June 3, the final fifth episode of the acclaimed series "Chernobyl" from the American HBO television channel was released in the United States. The series tells about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about the policy of the USSR in those days, the deaths of liquidators, the life of their relatives and much more. ...

Truth and fiction of 'Chernobyl': liquidators of the Chernobyl NPP about the most popular TV series in history

“The most popular TV series in the world of all time” was a film story about events in Ukraine. Namely, about the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 and about the first months of its liquidation. At least this is how the IMDB service assessed the mini-series “Chernobyl” produced by the TV channel...

Overlap the streets and alter the buttons: how the Chernobyl series was filmed in Ukraine

The project that topped the ranking of TV series of all time according to audience ratings, which is written about by the world's media and which tells about the world's largest environmental disaster, is the series “Chernobyl” by the American channel HBO and the British company Sky. Most of the scenes were filmed in Lithuania, but...

The series 'Chernobyl' became the most popular in history, beating the 'Game of Thrones'

The television show, consisting of five episodes, received a rating of 9,6 points out of 10. The mini-series “Chernobyl”, shown by HBO, became the most popular in history. In the ranking of “250 TV Shows with the Highest Viewer Ratings” published on the IMDb website, the series took first place, ahead of “The Game...

In the US, the journalist decided to show the series 'Chernobyl' to his stepfather - and accidentally found out that he was the liquidator

Slava Malamud is a journalist and mathematics teacher from Transnistria living in the United States. He retells on Twitter every episode of "Chernobyl", his threads collect tens of thousands of likes, they are retweeted by the creator of the series Craig Mazin. Malamud decided to show the series to his stepfather - and accidentally found out that he was the liquidator of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

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