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State Film Archive of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.
Tarakanov, General Nikolai. Personal archive.
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Интервюта на автора
Antoshkin, Nikolai. Major general, chief of staff of the Soviet Air Defense Forces’ Seventeenth Airborne Army, Kiev military district. Moscow. October 21 and 23, 2015; October 13, 2016.
Barabanova, Anzhelika. Chief of radiation burn surgery, clinical department, Hospital Number Six. Moscow, October 14, 2016.
Belyaev, Igor. Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building of the USSR; deputy head of Sredmash US-605, June–November 1986. Moscow, April 17, 2017.
Bocharov, Lev. Deputy chief engineer of the Main Directorate for Design and Capital Construction of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building. Chief engineer of Shift Three, Sredmash US-605, September–December 1986. Moscow, April 14, 2017.
Bolshov, Leonid. Research physicist in the Troitsk branch of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy; director of the Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1988. Moscow, April 15, 2017.
Borovoi, Alexander. Head of the neutrino physics research group, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy; chief scientist of the Chernobyl Complex Expedition, 1988–2003. Moscow, October 15, 2015.
Breus, Alexey. Senior reactor control engineer, Second shift, Unit Four of Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, July 11, 2015.
Brukhanov, Viktor (director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant), and Valentina Brukhanov (Chernobyl plant heat treatment specialist). Kiev, September 6, 2015, and February 14, 2016.
Champlin, Richard. Chief of bone marrow transplant surgery at UCLA Medical Center. Telephone, September 21, 2016.
Daniloff, Nicholas. Moscow bureau chief, U.S. News & World Report. Telephone interview, September 26, 2017.
Dodd, Laurin. RBMK reactor expert in Nuclear Systems and Concepts Department, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, March 1986–May 1994; managing director, Shelter Implementation Plan Project Management Unit, Chernobyl nuclear power plant, April 2006–March 2014. Telephone, May 4, 2018.
Drach, Leonid. Head of the Nuclear Energy Sector of the USSR Council of Ministers; member of the first government commission investigating the causes of the Chernobyl accident. Moscow, April 19, 2017.
Esaulov, Alexander. Deputy chairman of the Pripyat municipal executive committee, or ispolkom. Irpin, Ukraine, July 2015.
Flowers, Alan. Nuclear physicist and lecturer at Kingston Polytechnic, London; subsequently radiation protection officer at Kingston University; honorary doctor of radioecology with the International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University, Minsk. Telephone, February 25, 2016.
Gale, Robert. Professor of medicine at UCLA Medical Center; chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry. June 22, 2016 (telephone) and August 11, 2016 (Big Sky, MT).
Gaschak, Sergei. In 2018, deputy director for Science, Chornobyl International Radioecology Laboratory. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, February 7, 2011.
Glukhov, Andrei. Senior reactor control engineer, Unit One, Chernobyl nuclear power plant, April 1981–August 1984; head of Operational Support Group, Department of Nuclear Safety, Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 1984–1986. Slavutych, Ukraine, July 12, 2015; Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, February 11 2016; telephone, July 3, 2018.
Goldston, Robert. Head of physics research team, Tokamak Test Reactor, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Princeton, NJ, February 15, 2018.
Grebeniuk, Vladimir. Colonel; commander of 427th Red Banner Mechanized Regiment of the Civil Defense Forces stationed in Kiev. Kiev, February 9, 2015.
Grodzinsky, Dmitri. Head of the Department of Biophysics and Radiobiology of the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev, February 8, 2011, and July 13, 2015.
Gubarev, Vladimir. Science editor, Pravda. Moscow, October 23, 2015.
Ignatenko, Sergey. Director of the Electrical Grid for the Right Bank of the Dnieper for the Kiev region, Ukrainian Ministry of Energy and Electrification. Kiev, April 22, 2016.
Jacob, Sabine. In 2016, assistant to Dr. Robert Gale. Los Angeles, September 23, 2016.
Jorgensen, Timothy. In 2018, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University. Telephone, June 19, 2016.
Khmel, Piotr. Lieutenant, Paramilitary Fire Brigade Number Two. Kiev, February 16, 2006, and July 14, 2015.
Khodemchuk, Natalia. Engineer in Pripyat water pumping station Number Two and wife of Valery Khodemchuk. Kiev, May 28, 2017.
Kirichenko, Svetlana. Chief economist of the Pripyat ispolkom. Kiev, April 23, 2016.
Kizima, Vasily. Director of construction, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, February 7, 2016.
Klochko, Viktor. Colonel; head of the Pripyat department of the KGB. (Interview by Taras Shumeyko), Kiev, September 7, 2015.
Koldin, Valery. Colonel; deputy head of the Department of Military Construction, Third Shift, Sredmash US-605 (October–December 1986). Moscow, April 18, 2017.
Koliadin, Anatoly. Electrician in thermal automation and measurement workshop, Unit Four, Chernobyl nuclear power plant; editor of Chernobyl Post, 2003–2017, Kiev. July 10, 2015.
Kopchinsky, Georgi. Senior advisor on nuclear power, Communist Party Central Committee, Moscow. Kiev, November 28, 2016.
Korneyev, Yuri. Turbine operator, Fifth Shift, Unit Four, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, September 8, 2015.
Korol, Alexander. Trainee reactor control engineer, Unit Four, Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev, September 9, 2015 (interview by author) and April 17, 2018 (interview by Taras Shumeyko).
Korolevska, Anna. In 2018, deputy director for science of the Chernobyl Museum. Kiev, July 10, 2015; February 8, 2016.
Kovtutsky, Viktor. Chief accountant at Chernobyl nuclear power plant construction department. Kiev, April 23, 2016.
Kozlova, Elena. Materials research technician, NIKIMT. Moscow, April 17, 2017.
Kozyrev, Yuri. Senior scientist at the Gaseous Electronics Department of the Institute of Physics in Kiev. Kiev, April 21, 2017.