On the night of 26 April 1986, the Chornobyl disaster occurred - an environmental and social accident caused by the explosion and subsequent destruction of the fourth power unit of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant located in Prypiat, Ukraine.  The destruction was of an explosive nature, the reactor was completely destroyed and large amounts of radioactive substances were released into the environment. The consequences of this tragic event remind us every day of the danger of the ‘peaceful atom’, which has caused irreparable damage to all living things.  The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant overshadowed even the darkest pages of Japan's history, as the explosion rate at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was equal to three hundred bombs dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Recalling the events of 39 years ago, students of Kremenchuk Flight College joined the events to commemorate and honour the heroism of Chornobyl NPP personnel, firefighters, military personnel, builders, scientists, and doctors who took part in the liquidation of the accident.

On this occasion, young people bowed their heads in a moment of mourning and laid flowers on behalf of the college near the memorial sign to the Victims of Chernobyl at the Prydniprovskyi Park.