What most people probably don’t know is that this nuclear power plant proudly bore the official name Vladimir Lenin Nuclear Power Plant (Чернобыльская АЭС им. В. И ...

At 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, an explosion destroyed reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl's Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Station in the former Soviet Union. Thirty years later, 5 million people ...

BEFORE 26 April 1986, living near the Vladimir Lenin Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Chernobyl (nicknamed Atomic City) or in the nearby workers’ city of Prypyat was highly desirable.