Leonid Utyosov premiered his new show, titled "Tea-Jazz" ( aka.. Kudryavtsev and Proskuryakov returned from the reactor and reported its state to Akimov and Dyatlov. Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Легасов; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.He is now mainly remembered for his work as the chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster. Until his death, he insisted he had done everything correctly and had made no mistakes. "[25] Ananenko and Bespalov received their awards in person, while Baranov, who died in 2005 of a heart attack, was awarded his posthumously. He switched from manual to automatic control of the control rods, which then caused a shutdown. Akimov and Toptunov spent several hours turning valves; the radioactive water in room 712 was half submerging the pipeline. Shashenok was found unconscious in room 604, pinned under a fallen beam, with bloody foam coming out of his mouth. Such were Leonid Toptunov and Olexander Akimov in real life. 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