Nikolai Antoshkin, Who Helped Halt Chernobyl Disaster, Dies at 78

The New York Times | Jan. 17, 2021, 4:23 p.m. | Original

He survived radiation as commander of the operation that extinguished the Chernobyl nuclear plant fire. He died of the coronavirus.

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