Moscow D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology
Known for
Efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and presenting the findings of the investigative commission as chief scientific advisor
Spouse
Margarita Mikhailovna
Children
2[1]
Awards
Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumous)
Scientific career
Fields
Inorganic chemistry
Institutions
I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor
Isaak Kikoin
Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is primarily known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Legasov also presented the findings of an investigation to the International Atomic Energy Agency at the United Nations Office at Vienna, detailing the actions and circumstances that led to the explosion of Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
^Higginbotham, Adam (2019). Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-3461-6.
Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the...
Valery Ilyich Khodemchuk (Ukrainian: Валерій Ілліч Ходемчук; Russian: Валерий Ильич Ходемчук; 24 March 1951 – 26 April 1986) was a Soviet engineer who...
established later in the day to investigate the accident. It was headed by ValeryLegasov, First Deputy Director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy,...
politician Valery Larbaud, French author ValeryLegasov, Russian scientist. He was the chief of the investigation committee of the Chernobyl disaster. Valery Leontiev...
George VI in the historical drama series The Crown (2016–2017); and ValeryLegasov in the miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which he won the BAFTA TV Award...
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disaster, broadcast at the start of 2006, Edmondson played the role of ValeryLegasov. In 2005 he appeared as a celebrity model on Star Portraits with Rolf...
damage control from the Chernobyl disaster, alongside scientists such as ValeryLegasov. Shcherbina served in a similar role after the catastrophic 1988 Armenian...
Aleksandr Akimov Anatoly Dyatlov Vasily Ignatenko Valery Khodemchuk Boris Shcherbina ValeryLegasov Mykola Melnyk Vassili Nesterenko Vladimir Pikalov...
estimate of ValeryLegasov—inorganic chemist and a lead investigator of the Soviet Union's official commission—after objecting to Legasov's use of a statistical...
power station staff.: 312 On the disconnection of safety systems, ValeryLegasov said in 1987, "It was like airplane pilots experimenting with the engines...
evaluate the situation himself, even attempting to locate lost plant worker, Valery Khodemchuk. He began to feel weak and started vomiting, caused by acute...
Aleksandr Akimov Anatoly Dyatlov Vasily Ignatenko Valery Khodemchuk Boris Shcherbina ValeryLegasov Mykola Melnyk Vassili Nesterenko Vladimir Pikalov...
Aleksandr Akimov Anatoly Dyatlov Vasily Ignatenko Valery Khodemchuk Boris Shcherbina ValeryLegasov Mykola Melnyk Vassili Nesterenko Vladimir Pikalov...
Efim Slavsky of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building (Sredmash) and ValeryLegasov of the Kurchatov Institute. Bryukhanov was accused of mismanagement...
Aleksandr Akimov Anatoly Dyatlov Vasily Ignatenko Valery Khodemchuk Boris Shcherbina ValeryLegasov Mykola Melnyk Vassili Nesterenko Vladimir Pikalov...
Aleksandr Akimov Anatoly Dyatlov Vasily Ignatenko Valery Khodemchuk Boris Shcherbina ValeryLegasov Mykola Melnyk Vassili Nesterenko Vladimir Pikalov...
Führer to Hitler and convicted criminal; in prison (17 August 1987) ValeryLegasov, Soviet chemist and lead investigator of the Chernobyl Disaster (27...
as Eli Cohen / Kamel Amin Thaabet Jared Harris – Chernobyl (HBO) as ValeryLegasov Sam Rockwell – Fosse/Verdon (FX) as Bob Fosse Michelle Williams – Fosse/Verdon...
Reshma Pathan Bidita Bag (older) Spandan Chaturvedi (young) Chernobyl ValeryLegasov Jared Harris Boris Shcherbina Stellan Skarsgård The Boy Who Harnessed...
requirements of the uranium fuel. In his posthumously published memoirs, ValeryLegasov, the First Deputy Director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy...
August 31 – Fabrizia Ramondino, Italian author (d. 2008) September 1 – ValeryLegasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d. 1988) September 2 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American...
monoxide poisoning Thomas H. Lee (2023), American financier, gunshot ValeryLegasov (1988), Soviet-Russian inorganic chemist, member of the Chernobyl nuclear...
during the accident and its immediate aftermath, focusing on the role of ValeryLegasov. The Battle of Chernobyl (2006), a documentary with live footage at...
2024) 1935 – Guy Rodgers, American basketball player (d. 2001) 1936 – ValeryLegasov, Soviet inorganic chemist, chief of the commission investigating the...
Global Information
Order of Lenin
Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumous)