Mykola Mykolayovych Melnyk (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Мельник; 17 December 1953 – 26 July 2013), also known as Nikolai Melnik, was a Soviet-Ukrainian pilot and liquidator hero renowned for his high-risk helicopter mission on the dangerously-radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant building immediately after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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17 December 1953 Stavysche, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
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Died |
28 July 2013 (aged 59) Alicante, Spain
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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