Borys Baranov

1940 – 2005

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Boris Aleksandrovich Baranov (Russian: Борис Александрович Баранов; Ukrainian: Борис Олександрович Баранов, romanized: Borys Oleksandrovych Baranov; 11 November 1940 — 6 April 2005) was an engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and a Chernobyl liquidator. As a liquidator, he and two others volunteered to drain the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building, thus preventing the reactor from exploding. Baranov lived almost 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, dying due to a heart attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 6 April 2005, aged 64. In 2019, he was posthumously awarded the t

Name
Borys Baranov
Locality
Погреби, Ucraina
Born
11 noiembrie 1940
Died
6 aprilie 2005
Age
64 years
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Cemetery
16
Locality
Погреби
Country
Ucraina
Public figure
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