Russian President Boris Yeltsin awarding Chernobyl

Moscow, Russia. President Boris Yeltsin (L) awards a state decoration to Anatoly Denisenko, Chairman of the Perm Region Committe of the Chernobyl Union, a liquidator of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The term liquidator most often applies to the Soviet civil and military personnel called upon to eliminate consequences of the Chernobyl disaster and participate in rescue operations. Alexander Yakovlev/ITAR-TASS

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