#bryukhanov

[elenatria]

Bryukhanov in his undershirt, babyyyyy.

Some "new" publicity stills from the site that keeps on giving.

[dustoffstartagain]

Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov armporn compilation

Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov armporn compilation

[straightmenobsession]

Ultra Masculine Bodybuilder Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov.

“you should complete in such a way that when you leave the gym you are not ashamed of yourself.”

[muscletitanlover]

Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov, Russia IG: oo_theend_oo

[wrestlehead]

Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov

[dianetastesmetal]

Look at 'em, they're chatting <3

[sunnynabons]

Bryukhanov w/ glasses 👓

+ other versions

Do you think it was Khomyuk's glasses bc it looks like it is haha here's a silly extra doodles for this

Original:

I'm crushing on con o neill and I haven't even watched OFMD (it's already in my watchlist dw) wth

[reactor-four-official]

Victor Bryukhanov, the former director of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Born in Soviet Uzbekistan to Russian parents, Bryukhanov had studied electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Tashkent.

He was chosen by the USSR’s Minister of Energy to construct the Ukrainian SSR’s first nuclear power station in late 1969. Chosen more for his loyalty to the Communist Party and ability to (on paper) get things done, the Director was nevertheless a dedicated and competent engineer.

He quite literally raised the Chernobyl plant from nothing, staring in early 1970. The area where the plant came to be was initially dense forest in Northern Ukraine, nowhere near any industrial base that could be used to construct the monstrous structures of the plant. He was eventually able to construct not only the first two reactors of the plant, but also concrete plants, roads, bridges, power lines, and an entire city to house 50,000 people, initially almost entirely by himself.

It was not easy. Construction materials provided by the planned economy of the Soviet Union were shoddy, workmen sloppy, and overall equipment and personnel were both lacking. The pressure of both the Ministry of Energy and the Communist Party to bring the plant online was unrelenting. It was so intense that he even attempted to resign his post in 1972, despite the prestige that would come with success. His resignation was quite literally torn up and thrown away, and he reluctantly went back to work.

In 1977, the plant finally came online. Over the next few years, Bryukhanov would make it the poster child of the Soviet nuclear industry. The first two units were joined by two additional ones, completed in 1984. The Director enjoyed immense prestige and personal accolades from both the USSR and the Communist Party. Two more reactors were planned, which would have made Chernobyl the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of both electrical generation capacity and number of reactors.

Unfortunately for Bryukhanov, the good times were not to last. The explosion on April 26th, 1986 destroyed not only the fourth reactor but also the prestige of the power plant and its Director. The Director was one of the five men tried by the USSR for causing the accident, and he was sentenced to ten years of hard labor in a prison camp in the Donetsk region. He was not even awake when the accident occurred.

Released early on good behavior in 1991, the Director got a job at the Ukrainian government agency responsible for the ongoing liquidation efforts in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. He worked there for twenty years, until poor health forced him to retire. He died on the 12th of October, 2021, in Kyiv.

[masstxtbootycall]

I’m watching hbo chernobyl and experiencing truly so much stress anyways con o’neill just rocked up and i’m laughing at the guy i made up in my head imagining someone being like aw are you sad abt the death in ofmd well here is another hbo period piece where he plays a real person <3

[rugessnome]

I ...have complicated and rather less positive than I generally see feelings about OFMD but that sort of makes me weirdly half-sympathetic to Izzy. Sure, most of my grievances are more on the Doylist level, and he goes about things ...badly but it's like ahhh! someone else who is not entirely gruntled about this state of affairs...

...shoutout to the people who mentioned that it's just Con O'Neill's voice and it's the same when he's playing Bryukhanov as for Izzy Hands...

[elenatria]

I swear I was only looking for Valoris reference pics...

I was doing a google image search for a better quality version of a Valery pic, and not only did I find it in high res, I found a BUNCH of pics I had never seen before. *___*

There's one more publicity shot from their first Kremlin scene but I've never seen this one before. Look at Boris' deadly glare, tilting his head to the side as if he's about to chew off Valery's face. And those massive fingers. <3

Boris Shcherbina towering over incompetent fools.

Is Valery tied up? Or maybe Boris sees him that way...

First night together. 💗 As Pikalov put it, "There's a hotel... 😉".

That Boris profile. ❤💗

Seeing them from the back during the rooftop scene.

Suspenders porn. Is Valery sneaking glances at Boris while revealing just a few tantalizing inches of his suspender? "I swear it was completely by chance."

...And that explains what Boris' massive hands are doing there. 👇

Boris has no choice but to spring to his feet and get a closer look at those naughty suspenders.

Sad Boris is sad. TT__TT

...but at least now he has someone to look up to.

Look at Boris' compassionate look as he gazes at his Valery who is burdened with a horrible dilemma. 😭

A clearer, more detailed photo than the other Valery/Ulana publicity shot we have and guess what, the deputy director of the Kurchatov institute loves him some Шекспир. 😁 Makes me wonder which play of The Bard is his favourite one.

The day of reckoning...

But before their world falls apart, before they lose each other forever, they have one last moment, they have The Bench.

They will always have The Bench.

💔

Btw why is that guard smiling wtf. Does he ship them too??

P.S.: It does make you wonder though just how MANY other Chernobyl publicity shots are out there and we haven't found them yet.

And I mean it's been years.

[dustoffstartagain]

Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov July 24

Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov July 24

[straightmenobsession]

Ultra Masculine Bodybuilder Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov.

“After the main tournament.”

[muscletitanlover]

Constantin Truvor Bryukhanov, Russia IG: oo_theend_oo

[jellybeanium124]

so I'm home for Rosh Hashanah and I text the link to the trailer to my parents and me and my dad watch it together on his phone on the couch and afterwards my dad was like "I've seen him in something since then" ("then" = when they watched ofmd) and I was like "who" and he said "the right hand man" so I go to con o'neill's imdb and start listing shows and eventually get to Chernobyl which they recognize and I show my dad his character's name and picture and my dad goes "oh! he was the asshole!" and I burst out laughing ajvehktbjrlysknt;urly'ietuoryip;out

izzy hands 🤝 viktor bryukhanov

con o'neill being the asshole

[teeth--thief]

I hope you missed the feeling of a full, Chornobyl-themed inbox. You'll have to get used to it! Do you know any good documentaries, interviews, videos, etc. about Chornobyl? Whether direct links (YT or otherwise), or just the titles, it'd be a big help for me. - R

If something is not linked right or there's any other problem, please let me know! Drafting text posts on mobile is an absolute nightmare. They still haven't fixed the bug that randomly deactivates hyperlinks and messes with whole paragraphs of text... delightful.

Let's see what I have saved... @deadvitya you asked for "good" stuff - now, I'm not sure if I'd clarify all of these as good, but at least most of them aren't the silly and very dramatised "documentaries."

��редупреждение (1986)

3828

Belonging

Exodus

These places are dear to me

Unforgettable

Threshold

The Bell of Chernobyl

Pripyat Chernobyl Year 1996

Pripyat archival footage from 1986 till 1990

About Vashchuk (one/two/three/parts of these available here with translation)

Розщеплені на атоми

Lyudmila Ignatenko about HBO's show | Vasily's mother and Svetlana Aleksevich (ugh)

Літературно-експертні вечори "Ті, хто не залишив варту" (part 1/part 2)

The Chernobyl Labyrinth: The Search for Khodemchuk with Aleksandr Agulov

Aleksandr Kupnyi has a lot of interviews; some of his videos are even translated

Поход в шахту реактора a.k.a archival footage from 1998 posted by Kupnyi that deserves its very own mention

The Chornobyl Family YouTube channel

That Chernobyl Guy (obviously)

Чернобыльская атомная

Interview with Valery Perevozchenko's wife

Compiled bits of (incredibly depressing) interviews with Vera Toptunova (Leonid Toptunov's mother)

Interview with Oleksiy Breus

Boris Stolyarchuk interview

Не спрашивай, по ком звонит колокол (a warning: it starts with the exhumation of Shashenok's body)

Колокол Чернобыля

Maximum Allowable Dose (a documentary with the focus on Legasov)

The Telecon documentary channel has a TON of archival footage from the liquidation efforts (including this one in which they're bothering Steinberg as he's having lunch lmao)

The hour long interview with Dyatlov

A much shorter interview with Dyatlov

Recordings from the beginning of the infamous trial

Pre disaster Bryukhanov interview

A short 1996 Bryukhanov interview

Fomin appearance from a TV programme

Firefighters interview

Chernobyl: Utopia in Flames (I dont have a nice streaming link, but I do have this)

Chernobyl: Two Colors of Time (it's a trilogy, but I can't find the first part as of right now. Here are the second and the third)

Phone conversations from the night of the disaster (acted out, not the actual recording, of course)

A few things (not videos) I have miraculously saved and not lost and forgotten about immediately after reading:

Interview with Sitnikov's widow

Interview with Aleksandr Akimov's childhood friend

Chernobyl Critical Blog

Inexplicably gone (since last year, I think) but archived on the Wayback Machine, Francesca Dani's Heroes of Chernobyl articles. It included an interview with Leonid Toptunov's mother.

Note: I deliberately did not add documentaries such as "Hour by Hour", the BBC one, "The Final Warning" (yes, like the book) etc etc, because they're easy to find and also... you know... not that good. Honourable mention: the "Zero Hour" documentary, which did a great job casting the control room staff (and nothing else). I'm sure that I'm forgetting a ton of things, but I'd say it's a solid starting point.