The Soviet Minister of Power and Electrification reports on an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Station in Ukraine. The Soviet Ministry of Heath has determined that "it is not required to take special measures, including the evacuation of the population from the city."
1986
List of Reports about the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station
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- 26 April 1986.
Urgent dispatch to the CC CPSU from A. N. Makukhin, First Deputy Minister of Power Engineering of the USSR, on the accident at Chernobyl’ AES
Reference data is lacking.
- 30 April 1986.
Protocol of the meeting of the CC CPSU Politburo Operations Group on eliminating the consequences of the accident at Chernobyl’ AEs.
Reference data is lacking (declassified).
- 21 February 1979.
KGB report to CC CPSU on shortcomings in the construction of Chernobyl’ AES.
Reference data is lacking.
- 23 March 1979.
Report by the V. Frolov, manager of the CC CPSU machine building department on shortcomings in the construction of Chernobyl’ AES.
Reference data is lacking.
-8 May 1986.
Excerpt from the protocol of a meeting of the CC CPSU Politburo on Murakhovskiy’s memorandum on the status and measures to eliminate the consequences of the accident at Chernobyl’ AES in agriculture.
Reference data is lacking.
- 6 May 1986.
Shevarnadze memo to CC CPSU on the reaction abroad in connection with the accident at Chernobyl’ AES.
Reference data is lacking.
Undated list of reports about the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station, written by or directed to the CPSU Central Committee, from 1979 through 1986.
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Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov papers, 1887-1995, mm97083838. Translated by Theresa Billow-Supple.
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