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The CHERNOBYL TOUR founder Sergii Mirnyi: a radiation reconnaissance officer, writer and environmentalist<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1986,\u00a0Sergii Mirnyi<\/b>\u00a0– the\u00a0CHERNOBYL TOUR\u00ae<\/b>\u00a0founder, scientific advisor and tour-designer – rode in the Zone along almost the same routes as the visitors of nowadays. Only back then the trips were called radiation reconnaissance missions, the means of transportation was “armik\u201d – a 7-ton military armored reconnaissance patrol vehicle\u00a0BRDM-2rh<\/i> \u2013 and the irradiation in the Zone center was 1,000 times more powerful. The exploded nuclear reactor 4 stood burst open, with its black burnt inside exposed, and each day the whole planet nervously perused newspapers in the morning and hurried to TV screens in the evening, trying to figure out what new surprises Chernobyl and its radiation keep in stock for them… In order not to let any of such surprises happen, tens of thousands of men in overalls and fatigues worked at this vast territory round-the-clock. And tens of thousands of families, which lived at these places for tens and perhaps hundreds generations, left their native land for good…<\/p>\n

\"\"In August 1986 Sergii Mirnyi, the platoon commander of Chernobyl radiation reconnaissance, was cited for his courage and heroism by the commander of Kiev military area. After the demobilization from Chernobyl he returned to his civil lab and continued working as a physical chemist. But strangeness, oddness and inexplicability of what he witnessed in Chernobyl kept intriguing and haunting him. So, to resolve the enigma and make sense of the Chernobyl experience, he had to apply to one more university, this time abroad, and got MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy, studied social sciences and humanities.<\/p>\n