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	HU OSA 331-0-2
Fonds 331:	Interviews Relating to Chernobyl
Series 2:	Interviews with Chernobyl survivors

Date(s) 1996

Extent and medium 14 VHS, 0.35 linear meters

Scope and content

44 hours of video interviews entitled the “Living Voices of Chernobyl" were conducted by journalists Svetlana Alexievich and Tatiana Loginova.
Among interviewees are local scientists, engineers, Communist Party officials, priests, politicians, mothers of children with leukemia, medical radiologists, immigrants, and others from the "zone."
Of particular value are the interviews with Vasilii Nesterneko, former director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Belarus Academy of Sciences, who describes the impotence and hypocrisy of the Soviet authorities following the Chernobyl explosion. Also important are interviews with leading Belarus scientists about the dangers of Chernobyl and the strategies for confronting the various effects of the disaster. Doctors’ accounts are likewise informative. The interviews also document the nature of the decontamination work, peoples’ ignorance about radiation, and daily life after the explosion when people remained uninformed about the events at Chernobyl.

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access Open to the public.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright held by the interviewers.

Language/scripts of material Belarusian, Russian

Finding aids

• 14 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-81-9 Video Recordings of Moscow Television Program, 1985-1994

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Marina Nistotskaya (CEU, Political Science PhD) February 2004.
Online version updated 17 November 2009