President Petro Poroshenko declared 2016 the year of remembrance of liquidators and victims of Chornobyl disaster. Respective Decree was signed on December 14.
The Government was instructed to conduct commemorative events in Kyiv on April 26, 2016.
Nearest Events
| April 26, 1986 (1.23.40 a.m., Moscow time) – accident at Chornobyl NPP Unit No.4 in the course of design testing of one of the safety-related systems |
| In the beginning of May, 1977 the assemblers, builders, servicemen and operational personnel of ChNPP begun precommissioning works at Unit 1 |