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Valery Alekseyevich Legasov

Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Tula, gorod Tula, Oblast Tula, Soviet Union (USSR)
Death: April 27, 1988 (51)
Moscow / Москва, Московская область / Moscow oblast', РСФСР, USSR (suicide by hanging)
Place of Burial: 2 Luzhnetskiy Proyezd, Moskva, Moskva, 119048, Russian Federation
Immediate Family:

Son of Aleksey Legasov and Antonina Legasova
Husband of Margarita Mikhailovna Legasova
Brother of Sergey Alekseyevich Legasov

Occupation: советский химик-неорганик
Managed by: Vladislav
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About Valery Alekseyevich Legasov

Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is primarily known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Legasov also presented the findings of an investigation to the International Atomic Energy Agency at the United Nations Office at Vienna, detailing the actions and circumstances that led to the explosion of Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

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О Валерии Алексеевиче Легасове (русский)

Вале́рий Алексе́евич Лега́сов (1 сентября 1936, Тула, РСФСР, СССР — 26 апреля 1988[1], Москва, РСФСР, СССР) — советский химик-неорганик. Доктор химических наук, профессор. Действительный член Академии наук СССР (1981). Был членом правительственной комиссии по расследованию причин и по ликвидации последствий аварии на Чернобыльской АЭС, за что в 1996 году посмертно удостоен звания Героя России.

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1936
September 1, 1936
Tula, gorod Tula, Oblast Tula, Soviet Union (USSR)
1988
April 27, 1988
Age 51
Moscow / Москва, Московская область / Moscow oblast', РСФСР, USSR
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Новодевичье кладбище, 2 Luzhnetskiy Proyezd, Moskva, Moskva, 119048, Russian Federation