Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR, exploded on 26 April 1986. This map follows the places connected with that accident.1
1 · 51.39° N, 30.10° E
Reactor 4 of the plant exploded on 26 April 1986.1
The fire inside reactor 4 burned until 10 May 1986.11
Design of the sarcophagus started 24 days after the disaster, and construction ran from June to late November.12
2 · 51.41° N, 30.06° E
In 1973 Anatoly Dyatlov moved to Pripyat to work at the newly constructed Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.32
The Soviet government set up a 10-kilometre exclusion zone 36 hours after the accident, initially evacuating around 49,000 people.2
3 · 51.30° N, 30.00° E
The Exclusion Zone was originally a 30 km radius around the plant and was later enlarged to about 2600 square km.3
In April 2020 forest fires spread through 20,000 ha of the exclusion zone.17
4 · 50.45° N, 30.52° E
Anatoly Dyatlov died in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 13 December 1995, aged 64.37
Shcherbytsky was buried at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.39