Valery Legasov

Valery Alekseyevich Legasov is the main protagonist of the 2019 historical drama Miniseries, Chernobyl. Being the First Deputy Director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Legasov was tasked to assist with the cleanup effort from the Chernobyl disaster. While practical and goodhearted in his attempts, Legasov would find himself stuck in-between a world of dirty politicians and government officials who cared more for the safety of their own reputations.
He is portrayed by Jared Harris, who also portrayed King George VI in The Crown and Dr. Emil Nicolas in Morbius.
 
==Appearance==
 
==Personality==
 
==Story==
 
===All Remain Calm===
Chairman of the government commission Gorbachev, assigns Legasov and Shcherbina to go to Chernobyl and lead the commission of the Chernobyl disaster. 
 
The two take a helicopter ride towards the destroyed power plant, once they’re at the site, Legasov looks outside the window and sees a faint blue smoke flowing outside the reactor from the center of the building, justifying to him that the core itself had blown open, along with the graphite scattered all over the roof.
Shcherbina, not fully grasping the seriousness of the situation, orders the pilot to
get them directly over the building so they can get a better look. Legasov quickly attempts to calmly oppose Shcherbina’s order, but once the man talks back, Legasov immediately loses his temper and yells at Shcherbina saying, “We’ll be dead within a week! Dead!”.
Shcherbina sternly holds on to his order, telling the pilot he will have him shot, but Legasov tells the pilot that if they flew over the core, he will be "begging for that bullet". The pilot decides to turn back and land somewhere at the outskirts of the power plant.
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