The whole life of Lyudmila is closed on those terrible days after the Chernobyl accident. Most of the plot of “Chernobyl” is devoted to the tragic history of the spouses Ignatenko. Lyudmilla Ignatenko was the wife of Chernobyl firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, one of the first firefighters on the scene when the reactor exploded.
Today, She is the widow of Vasily Ignatenko, who was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Ukraine “For Courage.” He died 33 years ago. Lyudmila Ignatenko was pregnant when husband Vasily hurried to the disaster She stayed with him in hospital where he died painfully of radiation poisoning HBO's series Chernobyl … She is 48 years old and far from healthy. One of the saddest stories about the Chernobyl tragedy of 1986 about the young Pripyat family of firefighters Vasily and Lyudmila Ignatenko became the prototype for many novels and films. Ignatenko shared her experience with author Svetlana Alexievich, for her Nobel prize-winning 2015 book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. An ordinary couple from Soviet Pripyat, whose life turned into a nightmare immediately after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, taught how to love both the family and the Motherland .. Jessie Buckley played Lyudmilla Ignatenko in HBO's Chernobyl.

In the 2019, HBO miniseries Chernobyl, which draws on the stories of Ignatenko and others involved in the disaster, a character states that the death of Vasily and Lyudmilla's baby was caused by the fetus absorbing radiation while Lyudmilla cared for her husband in the hospital.
The miniseries showed Lyudmilla's harrowing experience when her husband was reduced to nothing by the disaster and … Image: HBO. After meeting with her husband for the first time, Lyudmilla, who was pregnant, was told by doctors that she could not touch Vasily. Once being a pastry baker to profession, she is now a disability pensioner and just like the former liquidators of Chernobyl, she doesn't receive enough compensation to make a …

Lyudmila Ignatenko was pregnant when husband Vasily hurried to the disaster She stayed with him in hospital where he died painfully of radiation poisoning HBO's series Chernobyl … Lyudmilla Ignatenko From 'Chernobyl' Is Based On A Real Person & Her Story Is Just As Harrowing As The Show Depicts HBO's new miniseries, Chernobyl, recreates the 1986 Chernobyl … Lyudmila Ignatenko now lives in Kiev, in an area where mainly Pripyat evacuees reside.

One of the heartbreaking stories in the show surrounded Ludmilla Ignatenko…