Friday, 15. December 2006
Topic: PHOTO - on December 15, 2006 at 10:47:00 AM CET
The story of the first photos from Chernobyl
It was a weekend. Everyone was relaxing, or preparing for the 1 May parade, when the power station was meant to receive the Order of Lenin and become a Hero of Socialist Labour.
There were rumours of a minor accident at the station, but I cleaned the windows of our flat in Pripyat as usual. Then at about 9am I was summoned urgently to the station.
No-one believed that something so awful could occur.
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