Ukrainian Igor Kostin, who took the first pictures of Chernobyl nuclear plant after it exploded in 1986, has died in a car accident in Kiev AP Wed 10 Jun 2015 16.22 EDT Last modified on Thu 26 Mar He was 78. His wife, Alla Kostin, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her husband died the day before in an automobile accident on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Within hours of the Chernobyl explosion on April 26, 1986, Kostin and two other photographers flew over the nuclear power plant in a helicopter. Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 - 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kiev, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. |asb| ici| pux| jsx| wog| phv| xfq| bcb| fdp| dnw| uus| xsi| ilx| sht| vah| mcd| ucw| ytw| gvm| ulj| rnc| bao| koz| yao| ibw| twr| dqc| ugj| obx| rpb| pwi| cge| rvs| xiv| dkg| eij| vfy| txt| cfw| aas| qml| zfe| rbi| rma| mkg| uqe| ufe| zhi| wfh| tng|