Nikolai Dmitrievich Tarakanov (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Тараканов; born 19 May 1934) is a former Soviet military leader, doctor of technical sciences, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, founder and chairman of the Coordination Council of the Presidential Club Trust, Center for Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities, a member of the Union of Russian Writers, laureate of the M.A.

Tarakanov led a three-month operation to remove radioactive debris from the dangerous zones of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant,[1] as well as the restoration work after the Spitak earthquake.

In his later life, he has become disabled due to consequences of his exposure to radiation in Chernobyl, and currently takes eight different medications to treat his radiation-related symptoms.

[2][3] Tarakanov was born in the village of Gremyachye (now - Khokholsky District, Voronezh Oblast) to a large peasant family.

He served in the school, later in the Red Banner regiment of civil defense troops (the city of Meref) as commander of an electrical platoon.

I got there in the month of June 1986, when there was still complete confusion after the largest catastrophe on our planet.In 1988, he led the rescue work after the Spitak earthquake.

When the people affected by the earthquake returned from hospitals, they began to look for their dead relatives and turned to us.

Overnight, the program to restore the destroyed Spitak, Leninakan, Akhuryan region collapsed.

But these telegrams fell to this man, Dozorov.According to Tarakanov, for his leadership of the operation on the Chernobyl accident, he was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

But after, as Tarakanov says, the conflict with the chief of staff of the Kiev military district, General Fedorov, he was removed from the list.

[5] In the HBO television series Chernobyl, Tarakanov is played by the English actor Ralph Ineson.

Not everything, not from the beginning to the end, but the most important moments of leading the operation by the general at Chernobyl, the removal of nuclear fuel, graphite, and so on — this was very brilliantly shown.