Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev26 April 1986
Receives initial government briefings as Soviet authorities begin assessing the scale of the Chernobyl reactor accident.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Receives initial government briefings as Soviet authorities begin assessing the scale of the Chernobyl reactor accident.
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