Oleksiy Ananenko
{{Short description|Ukrainian engineer at Chernobyl}}
{{Expand Ukrainian|topic=bio|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Oleksiy Ananenko
|honorific_prefix=Hero of Ukraine
|honorific_suffix={{tooltip|OGS|Order of the Golden Star(HOU)}}
| image = Ананенко Олексій Михайлович (cropped).jpg
| caption = Ananenko in 2011
|known_for=one of Chernobyl liquidators
| native_name = Олексій Ананенко
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1959|10|13}}
| birth_place = Inta, Komi ASSR, USSR
| awards = {{Hero of Ukraine}} Hero of Ukraine
}}
Oleksiy Mykhailovych Ananenko ({{langx|uk|Олексій Михайлович Ананенко}}; born 13 October 1959) is a Ukrainian mechanical engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Biography
After the Chernobyl disaster, he was part of the three-man "suicide squad"{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Sarah |title=A Chernobyl 'suicide squad' of volunteers helped save Europe — here's their amazing true story |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-volunteers-divers-nuclear-mission-2016-4 |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}} that drained the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building, since he was very familiar with the layout of the building. Although his feat was quickly forgotten in the wake of the disaster, he was awarded the Order for Courage in 2018 and the title Hero of Ukraine in 2019.{{Cite book |last=Silver |first=Lionel Ray |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYQfAQAAIAAJ |title=Fallout from Chernobyl |date=1987 |publisher=Deneau |isbn=978-0-88879-140-5 |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2019-06-14 |title=Real life Chernobyl diver reveals what really happened |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/real-life-chernobyl-diver-reveals-what-really-happened-we-walked-quicker-had-no-oxygen-tanks/story-XcexueUl379vFv3viCTvEI.html |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}[https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4682019-27817 УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №468/2019]{{Cite web |date=2021-04-26 |title=Hero of Chernobyl: An Interview with Engineer Alexei Ananenko |url=https://www.exutopia.com/chernobyl-interview-alexei-ananenko/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Ex Utopia |language=en-US}}
Despite media reports claiming the three men died of radiation poisoning shortly after the incident, he survived and lives in Kyiv as of 2019.{{Cite news |date=2019-06-12 |title=Chernobyl survivors assess fact and fiction in TV series |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48580177 |access-date=2023-10-09}}
In media
Ananenko was portrayed by Baltasar Breki Samper in the Sky/HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019).
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqOo3Rp7rCE&ab_channel=AFPNewsAgency 'I'm no hero' says Chernobyl diver portrayed in hit TV series (AFP video)]
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Category:Chernobyl liquidators