Chernobyl liquidators: Difference between revisions

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* [[Firefighter]]s who immediately responded to the reactor accident
* [[Civil defense]] troops of the [[Soviet Armed Forces]] who intensively worked on the removal of contaminated materials and deactivation on the reactor itself and all affected territories
* [[Internal Troops]] and [[Militsiya|police]] who provided security, access control and population [[Emergency evacuation|evacuation]]. At least 749 servicepersons of the [[Ukrainian SSR]]'s [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)|Ministry of Internal Affairs]] (MVS) were decorated for their liquidator effort (including three{{who}} who are recognized as [[Hero of the Soviet Union|Heroes of the Soviet Union]], and four{{who}} as [[Hero of Ukraine|Heroes of Ukraine]]); the number considers the firefighters who were subordinated to the MVS at the time<ref>[http://mvs.gov.ua/mvs/control/main/uk/publish/article/840572;jsessionid=07272DB2631CB6F857C39045AA460B30 У МВС вшанували учасників ліквідації наслідків аварії на ЧАЕС (ФОТО)] {{uk icon}}</ref>
* Military and civil medical and sanitation personnel
**groups of female [[janitor]]s tasked with the cleanup of food left inside abandoned homes to prevent outbreaks of infectious disease