Vasily Ignatenko wasn't just a character that HBO's heavyweights invented for their limited series, Chernobyl. He was a real life firefighter. At the age of just 25, he was one of the first ...

Lyudmila Ignatenko, who is depicted in the Emmy-winning limited series, recounted her last moments with her husband before he died from radiation poisoning One of the real-life people who inspired ...

In one of the opening scenes of HBO's miniseries "Chernobyl," a firefighter named Vasily Ignatenko is called to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to put out a fire. His pregnant wife, Lyudmilla ...

CHERNOBYL is the new historical drama series on HBO and Sky Atlantic and viewers are wondering if firefighter Vasily Ignatenko was a real person following the intense first episode. Here’s ...

The woman at the centre of HBO and Sky’s Chernobyl drama, Lyudmila Ignatenko, has claimed she never gave permission for her story to be told and has detailed the abuse she received after the ...

HBO's Chernobyl is not the story of any one person, ... The Real Story Of Vasily Ignatenko From 'Chernobyl' Is Just As Horrific As It Is Heroic. by Jack O'Keeffe. May 20, 2019.

For some background, Chernobyl included depictions of Vasily Ignatenko and his pregnant wife Lyudmila. The series implied that Lyudmila’s unborn child had been exposed to radiation while ...

Pregnant Lyudmilla Ignatenko watched in despair as the life of her husband, reduced to a "bloodied monster" by the Chernobyl blast, slowly ebbed away. Her partner Vasily, 25, was one of the first ...

HBO’s limited series Chernobyl took the world by storm during the summer of 2019. The series, based on the real-life disaster that took place in 1986, managed to become the highest-rated ...

The real-life Lyudmila Ignatenko from Chernobyl has said she was forced into hiding over the HBO drama. Chernobyl, about the nuclear accident in 1986, was critically acclaimed and recently won an ...

Vasily Ignatenko's (Adam Nagaitis) story, and that of his family, is truly a tragic one. Ignatenko was a newly married 25-year-old firefighter who had gone to put out the flames at the Chernobyl ...