Vasily Ignatenko
✓ Source-basedrisingSoviet firefighter who responded to the Chernobyl disaster (1961-1986)
Lived 1961 to 1986 · aged 25
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Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko was a Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 7
The School in Sperizh'e pictured in 2016.
The fire station apartments in Pripyat where Ignatenko lived, as they appeared in 2019.
Ignatenko fought fires on the roofs of the ventilation block and reactor three, the part of the structure seen here around and behind the striped ventilation stack
Monument to Ignatenko in Brahin, Belarus
Awards 3
Connected to Vasily 6
Denys ProkopenkoAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the Gold Star
Olexander SyrskyiAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the Gold Star
Vasyl SlipakAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the Gold Star
Valerii ZaluzhnyiAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the Gold Star
Nadiya SavchenkoAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the Gold Star
Leonid KadeniukAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the Gold StarAbout this person
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1961 to 1986 · aged 25
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