One of the characters it focuses on is Vasily Ignatenko, a real person played by Adam Nagaitis. He was a first responder at the Chernobyl explosion and was exposed to radiation as a result.

Pregnant Lyudmilla Ignatenko watched in despair as the life of her husband, reduced to a "bloodied monster" by the Chernobyl blast, slowly ebbed away. Her partner Vasily, 25, was one of the first ...

Her baby died just hours after being born, according to the BBC, suffering radiation from proximity to Vasily while still in the womb. Ignatenko said that with Chernobyl, which aired in the U.S ...

His wife still remembers Vasily telling her to go to sleep and that he would be home soon. The most galling part about Chernobyl, in my opinion, isn't the loss of life or the carelessness ...

The five-part mini-series is a dramatisation of the deadly 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion and tells the story of the brave men and women who saved Europe from disaster. Vasily Ignatenko ...

In one of the opening scenes of HBO's miniseries "Chernobyl," a firefighter named Vasily Ignatenko is called to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to put out a fire. His pregnant wife, Lyudmilla ...

One of the most disturbing scenes of Chernobyl is the graphically explicit death of real-life firefighter Vasily Ignatenko. Ignatenko was one of the many firefighters who responded to the fires ...

Vasily was just one of 28 firefighters and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station who died in the weeks immediately after the explosion. More than 200 others suffered acute radiation sickness ...

which pregnant Lyudmilla had not told Vasily about on that spring day. Lyudmilla would go on to write (with author Svetlana Alexievich) the Nobel prize-winning 2015 book "Voices from Chernobyl ...

As the episode unfolds it turns out: a bit of both. The focus on Lyudmilla and Vasily’s romance highlights what Chernobyl does so well. Harris’ Legasov spends this episode attempting to fix ...

More than 300,000 people were displaced after the disaster at the Chernobyl facility. Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko A woman looks at what is left of her former home in Orevichi. Many outside the ...

"Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes" shows the 1986 disaster ... viewers through "Lost Tapes" footage while explaining her husband Vasily's hellish ordeal of succumbing to the skin-peeling horrors ...