Lyudmila spoke about her experience with author Svetlana Alexievich for her Nobel prize-winning 2015 book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. The HBO mini-series about the Chernobyl disaster has become the highest-rated series according to users of the IMDB website. The memories of those who survived Chernobyl were collected in the book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. Chernobyl's real-life Lyudmila tearfully breaks her silence: Hero fire-fighter's widow reveals abuse she endured after her baby died because she nursed radio-active husband through his painful death Lyudmila from Chernobyl speaks for first time Jump to media player The "real" Lyudmila Ignatenko from the HBO/Sky Chernobyl series speaks for the first time about the nuclear disaster. True story behind Chernobyl firefighter's death - and his baby four months later Viewers of Sky Atlantic series Chernobyl were touched by the story of Lyudmilla Ignatenko, whose … Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of deceased fireman Vasily Ignatenko I'm sitting on my little chair next to him at night.

What would she … The tome’s recounting of the event and aftermath was comprised of primary sources such as Ignatenko’s wife, Lyudmila. Chernobyl explained: Ludmilla in real-life - How did radiation affect her baby? Real Life Story of Lyudmilla Ignatenko from 'Chernobyl' Who Lost Her Husband and Child August 02, 2019 | by Pedro Marrero If you ever wondered about the real-life story of some characters from the "Chernobyl" mini-series, we'll tell you about the true story behind Lyudmilla Ignatenko, a woman who sacrificed everything to be with her husband during his last days.
However, his popularity turned into problems for the prototype of one of his main characters - Lyudmila Ignatenko, the wife of the firefighter Vasily, who was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the accident and received a lethal dose of radiation. We … The miniseries showed Lyudmilla's harrowing experience when her husband was reduced to nothing by the disaster and … Lyudmilla gave her personal account of the tragedy in the 1997 book "Voices from Chernobyl." In order for her to see her husband, she has to bribe one of the hospital workers. In order for her to see her husband, she has to bribe one of the hospital workers.
I found an extract from the book Voices of Chernobyl which describes how she remarried and had a son.

Vasily Ignatenko is portrayed by the British actor Adam Nagaitis, and his wife by the Irish actress Jessie Buckley. At eight I say: "Vasenka, I'm going for a little walk." Lyudmilla Ignatenko was sleeping when her new husband, a firefighter, said he was going to the Chernobyl reactor to put out a fire. Svetlana Alexievich’s 1997 book, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, won the National Book Critics Circle Award after its translation into English in 2005. Chernobyl: The HBO series is based on real people and here's what happened to them after the nuclear disaster in 1986. The distillation of Svetlana Alexievich’s interviews with Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the wife of a deceased fireman, and the scores of other people represented in the pages that follow—Alexievich gives herself no voice in the book, except in the epilogue—is an intense feat of strange and harrowing eloquence. His wife, Lyudmilla Ignatenko describes the ordeals and the effects of the radiation.