1. Viktor Petrovich Bryukhanov was the manager of construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the director of the plant from 1970 to 1986.
13 Facts About Viktor Bryukhanov
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Viktor Bryukhanov's father used to work as a glazier and his mother was a cleaning lady.
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Viktor Bryukhanov later became the only one of his brothers to receive higher education attaining a degree from the Energy Department of the Tashkent Polytechnic in electrical engineering in 1959.
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Viktor Bryukhanov started as a senior foreman and rose up to the rank of head of workshop and finally, deputy chief engineer, finally resigning in 1970 to build a nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
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Viktor Bryukhanov was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union since 1966.
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Viktor Bryukhanov offered to resign, but his resignation was torn up by his Party-appointed supervisor from the Energy Ministry in July 1972.
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Viktor Bryukhanov presided over the response to fuel element damage at Reactor 1 on 9 September 1982, when contaminated steam was vented into the atmosphere.
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Viktor Bryukhanov, assisted by chief engineer Nikolai Fomin, instructed the operators to maintain and restore coolant supply, unaware that the reactor had already been destroyed.
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On hearing the news on TV, Viktor Bryukhanov's mother collapsed from a heart attack and died.
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Viktor Bryukhanov lived with his wife in the Desnianskyi District in Kyiv from 1992.
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In 1995, Viktor Bryukhanov worked as an employee of Ukrinterenergo, Ukraine's state-owned energy company, in charge of liquidating the consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
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Viktor Bryukhanov died in Kyiv on 13 October 2021, at the age of 85.
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Viktor Bryukhanov had a severe form of Parkinson's disease, in addition to having suffered a series of strokes in 2015 and 2016.