what happened to the people in chernobyl?
Nuclear accident Industrial disaster
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 In 1986 , the Byelorussian SSR was exposed to significant nuclear fallout from the explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in the neighboring Ukrainian SSR . 

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 The wars had caused widespread devastation and famine , and one of the victims of the hunger and disease was Khrushchev 's wife , Yefrosinia , who died of typhus in Kalinovka while Khrushchev was in the army . The commissar returned for the funeral and , loyal to his Bolshevik principles , refused to allow his wife 's coffin to enter the local church . With the only way into the churchyard through the church , he had the coffin lifted and passed over the fence into the burial ground , shocking the village . 

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 The Chinese authorities immediately launched a full investigation into the disaster , which concluded a week later on April 23 . The factory itself was sealed off for the course of the investigation , a common practice in China , but work continued in the site office . 

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 Following the Chernobyl disaster , along with Yegor Ligachev , Ryzhkov visited the crippled plant between 2 – 3 May 1986 . On Ryzhkov 's orders the government evacuated everyone within a 30 kilometres ( 19 mi ) radius of the plant . The 30 km radius was a purely random guess and it was later shown that several areas contaminated with radioactive material were left untouched by government evacuation agencies . 

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 The family were arrested during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and were imprisoned first at their home in Tsarskoye Selo and later at private residences in Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg , Siberia . " Darling , you must know how awful it all is " , Olga wrote in a letter to a friend from Tobolsk . During the early months of 1917 , the children caught measles . Olga contracted pleurisy , as well . 
