On April 26, 2024, a round table “Chernobyl - our memory and pain” was held at the Brest State Technical University, dedicated to the 38th anniversary of the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which occurred on April 26, 1986, became the largest man-made disaster on a global scale, the consequences of which will affect human health for hundreds of years. A significant amount of radioactive fallout fell on the territory of Belarus, turning the once flourishing areas bordering Ukraine into an exclusion zone.
The speakers of the event were: fire department veteran Mikhail Vasilyevich Demidyuk, who, as an ordinary firefighter, spent two weeks in the exclusion zone on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in the summer of 1986, taking part in the decontamination of contaminated areas and leading people out of contaminated areas. Retired Lieutenant Colonel of the KGB of the USSR Viktor Timofeevich Klyuchevskoy, being an employee of military counterintelligence, was directly in Chernobyl from February 1987. His responsibilities included suppressing attempts to access the restricted territory by foreign citizens who made repeated attempts to penetrate secret facilities.
In conclusion, a documentary film was shown about the causes of the Chernobyl disaster and its consequences for the population and nature.