Bishkek observes International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day 2021

AKIPRESS.COM - An event dedicated to the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day 2021 was held in Bishkek on April 26.
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.
Attendees observed a minute of silence and laid flowers to the memorial to Chernobyl victims, the mayor's press office said.
Currently, 259 Chernobyl disaster liquidators and their widows live in Bishkek, including 183 people with disabilities, 60 widows of participants and 16 participants of the accident consequences liquidation.
The event was attended by liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, deputy mayor Aijan Chynybaeva, Ambassador of Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan Valery Zhovtenko, representatives of embassies of Russia and Belarus, Chairman of the Bishkek Chernobyl Union Tilek Omurbekov, and others.
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in terms of cost and casualties, and is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven-the maximum severity-on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, ultimately involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion Soviet rubles-roughly US$68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation.