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7 The Chernobyl disasters Its effect on Belarus and Ukraine  ... on Saturday 26 April 1986, in a civilian nuclear power station of Kiev1 Oblast ... 110 miles north of Kiev, the modern capital of Ukraine, and just to the west of...
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Chernobyl: Facts About the Nuclear Disaster - Live Science  Sep 25, 2013 ... In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power ... Located about 81 miles (130 km) north of the city of Kiev, Ukraine, and .... Only a handful of radiation effects, such as stunted trees growing in the...
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Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia  The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light ... It is one of only two classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on ..... the Chernobyl accident, inclusive of data from Kiev's two largest obstetrics hospitals.
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Chernobyl | Chernobyl Accident | Chernobyl Disaster - World ...  The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the ... The Chernobyl disaster was a unique event and the only accident in the history of ... The Chernobyl Power Complex, lying about 130 km north of Kiev, Ukraine, and ... shutdown mechanisms, preceded the attempted test early on 26 April.
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PHOTOS: Ukraine marks 30th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear ...  Apr 26, 2016 ... The explosion on April 26, 1986, was not reported by Soviet authorities for two days, and then only after winds had carried the fallout across Europe and Swedish ... explosion in Ukraine's capital Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. ..... plant north of Stockholm had its staff evacuated, April 28, 1986, when...
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Challenger space shuttle disaster victims' families gather for 30th ...  Jan 28, 2016 ... Family members of the Challenger crew are gathering Thursday at the ... 30th anniversary of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion ... a teacher like their mother, was just eight when the tragedy happened. .... in a statement that although 30 years have passed, 'Challenger will .... 'Nothing ends here.
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History's Worst Nuclear Disasters - History in the Headlines  Mar 18, 2011 ... It also triggered what many are calling the worst disaster of its kind ... Chernobyl (April 26, 1986) ... plant was one of the largest and oldest nuclear power plants in the world. The explosion and subsequent meltdown that occurred there in ... of the facility's four reactors created a sudden power surge, which in...
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Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia  The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). ... It is one of only two classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification)...
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April 26, 1986 | Explosion at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - The New ...  Apr 26, 2012 ... On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident happened at the Chernobyl plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, in the Soviet Union. An explosion...
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World history - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  1968 The Soviet army was welcome in Prague capital in May of '45 but unwelcome in August '68, 1968's "Prague Spring" didn't end in June but with this August...
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Sergei Eisenstein - Alamy  OCTOBER Poster for 1927 Eisenstein film (aka October 1917 Ten Days That Shook The ... the storming of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg on October 25-26 1917 ... The famous steps in Odessa, Ukraine immortalised by Sergei Eisenstein 's...
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History of Kiev - Wikipedia  The history of Kiev, the largest city and the capital of Ukraine, is documented as going back at least 1,400 years. According to legend, Kiev was founded by three...
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7 The Chernobyl disasters Its effect on Belarus and Ukraine  The Chernobyl disaster began at 1.23 a.m. on Saturday 26 April 1986, in a civilian nuclear power station of Kiev1 Oblast (province) in the (then) ... and the emergence of two of the new independent republics - Belarus and Ukraine. ... west of Chernigov Oblast, the site of the original seventeenth-century Ukrainian state (fig.
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October 12, 1960 Cold War: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev ...  October 12, 1960 Cold War: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, his way of protesting ... I just accepted Nikita Khrushchev's "Shoe-banging incident" and the photo ...... In 1962, Cuba was expelled from the Organization of American States (OAS).
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Kiev - Wikipedia  Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the ... During its history, Kiev, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through ... From 1921 onwards Kiev was a city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist ... in the post-war years, remaining the third largest city of the Soviet Union.
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Chernobyl disaster | nuclear accident, Union of Soviet Socialist ...  Apr 14, 2015 ... Accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the ... Nuclear accident, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [1986] ... nuclear power station, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., October 1, 1986. ... 2526, 1986, when technicians at reactor Unit 4 attempted a poorly .... A visit to the site of the Chernobyl disaster.
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A Date Worth Remembering: August 20, 1968 (Warsaw Pact troops ...  Aug 19, 2007 ... On August 20, 1968, the forces of the Warsaw Pact crossed the borders of .... Although the New York Times, on August 21, reported that Czechoslovakia [was] invaded by Russians and four other Warsaw Pact forces, the top news ... the Soviet Union was transformed into a federation of free nations and...
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J! Archive - Show #2915, aired 1997-04-11  This czar died in the Russian city he named for his patron saint ... Punk precursors The MC5 were named for this "Motor City", their home base...
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June 25, 1991: Croatia and Slovenia Declare Independence  The Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) releases a statement saying, The peoples of Yugoslavia
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Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia  Gorbachev Era  Revolutions of 1989  Dissolution of the Soviet Union. Leader of the Soviet ..... He went to France on his first trip abroad as Soviet leader in October. ... On 11 October 1986, Gorbachev and Reagan met at Hfi house in Reykjavk, .... Apart from this violence, three major events that altered the face of the...
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Nicholas Daniloff's Exclusive Story; Thirteen Days in a ... - US News  May 16, 2008 ... This story originally appeared in the October 13, 1986, issue of U.S.News & World Report. ... an American correspondent to Siberianot even with Russian roots, who spoke ... tank topand marched off to the shower room and then to my cell. .... After Zakharov was denied bail on August 28, they had to act.