
Historical Crisis Committee: Chernobyl
Topic:
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Committee Roles:
Mikhail Gorbachev: General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
Valery Legasov: First deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy
Boris Scherbina: Deputy chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers; chairman of Chernobyl commission
Viktor Brukhanov: Director of Chernobyl
Anatoly Dyatlov: Deputy chief engineer for operations at Chernobyl
Leonid Toptunov: Senior Reactor Control Engineer at Chernobyl
Maria Protsenko: Chief architect of the city of Pripyat
General Nikolai Tarakanov: Soviet military leader
General Vladimir Pikalov: Commander of Soviet Chemical Forces
Charkov: Deputy Chairman of KGB
Viktor Chebrikov: Head of KGB
Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov: nuclear specialist, member of investigative committee
Nikolai Fomin: Assistant Director and Chief Engineer of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station