Elena Sermaksheva and Tanja Shmarlovskaya, both of them from Minsk in Belarus, worked on this contribution. They present the present the first announcement about the Chernobyl catastrophe from the news agency TASS and two following articles from the newspaper Pravda.
Elena Sermaksheva:
News (30th April 1986):
“FROM THE USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS”
On the Chernobyl NPP there was an accident, one of nuclear reactors is damaged. Measures on liquidation of consequences of accident are taken. The help appears for the victims. The governmental commission is created. “
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