On April 26, 1988, chemist Valery Legasov, having securely hidden six audio cassettes with his memories, hangs himself in his apartment. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23:45, during a safety experiment at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a reactor explosion and fire occur. Firefighters, alerted to the scene without protective gear, arrive at the accident site, unaware that they have found themselves at the epicenter of the largest technogenic disaster in human history. The leadership of the Chernobyl NPP assures the Kremlin that the situation is under control and that the radiation background is normal, but at the insistence of Academician Valery Legasov, both he and Boris Shcherbina, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, are sent to investigate what is happening on the site. Dear users! To ensure you don't lose us, bookmark the address: CTRL+D