Журнал Viche 2011 №11

№11, 2011

Daily Pains of Chernobyl liquidator Ivan Slutskiy

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy in city Kamyanets-Podilskyi two monuments dedicated to the liquidators were opened: Memorial in the park in the Shevchenko Street and memorial plaque near the Ministry of Emergencies in Khmelnytski Highway. By the way, Chernobyl liquidators have long ago asked to “immortalize” the memory of liquidators from Kamyanets-Podilskyi. The second one is a black flower of Chernobyl. According to the authors, it not only symbolizes the courage and dedication of the liquidators but precaution and fragility, the short-term of our lives. Because it’s really like this. Only God knows how and when our life way will end. In Chernobyl 19 Kamyanets-Podilsk firemen worked. One of them was Mykola Kashchuk - he did not return home from that trip...