Monument to Chernobyl to establish a museum of memory liquidators

"The Commission supports the installation of a monument on the site proposed by the municipality and the Museum of Memory to liquidators" – said the head of the commission Lev Lavrenov. Place to install a memorial sign was Square in North-West District of Moscow at the air outside, in front of the Museum of Memory to liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which is located there in an apartment house. Previously reported that the Moscow City Duma deputies adopted a resolution on the formulation of the territory of the Kurchatov Institute in the area of the plaque Shchukino Heroes-liquidators of radiation accidents and catastrophes. " Members of the commission added that the design of the monument should be developed on a competitive basis, in particular, it can be polished stone with an inscription. They also noted that Moscow needs a large-scale memorial to the liquidators of the Chernobyl station, because they exploit a nationwide and international scale. The disaster at the Ukrainian Chernobyl occurred on April 26, 1986, exploded a fourth unit of the station. The explosion, the area within a radius of 30 kilometers has undergone radioactive contamination from radioactive contamination affected 19 Russian regions with an area of almost 60,000 square kilometers and a population of 2.6 million people, 46,5 thousand square kilometers in Belarus (23% of the total area ). The total area of radioactive contamination in Ukraine amounted to 50 thousand square kilometers in 12 areas.