page_title: Monument to Those Who Saved the World
hierarchical_section_title: Monument to Those Who Saved the World
caption_attribution_description: Erected near the Chernobyl site is a monument to the "liquidators", an estimated quarter of a million soldiers and citizens enlisted as the 1986 accident's "first responders". (Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1991) Photo Credit: Petr Pavlicek/IAEA
context_page_description: Monument to Those Who Saved the World is a monument in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to the firefighters that died putting out the fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 after the catastrophic nuclear accident there. The monument is also dedicated to the Chernobyl liquidators that cleaned up after the accident.
context_section_description: Monument to Those Who Saved the World is a monument in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to the firefighters that died putting out the fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 after the catastrophic nuclear accident there. The monument is also dedicated to the Chernobyl liquidators that cleaned up after the accident.
caption: Close-up on right side of the monument
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