European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine the children of chernobyl by Alison Smale associated press Finiol it i nil of Pil. Sec i a Cru Melv. R  of Nomof. .1 i  j r and Hal Tho town l j 10, remembers his "  on a 12 nt.1 3n. I. -jlok.u. I it of if cd Vic la  i i i .1 Ril Jim j k in. Or "1 1 a i i in i Cuil -., ii was saturday aji1. Nuclear Accident the child in i Cre n  Linn we and Apar Menli Pri pyal Tho cily for to ii crw Nobyl nuclear plan Ivor kers two Miles irom her of 4 reactor Hal  up and burst into  .11 1 2j a or. Nearly two Oulu sri i Init in minium ill f t j d it. Ii Luji by lord of Mha and or Foj tet Ili Sikov were Wank Ned their father Leonid a a fireman Al the no 4 re actor to is now in a  Rwpim for Ideal men of radiation exposure the two boys Are now is the Bartok Pioneer Camp on Iho Black sea among it -1 110 children who hic Foj in Prip Yat. Or rest and my Licul supervision nol All the children Ioctl soon As Misha and Oleg the official order to evacuate in Pat was Given 36 hours later and convoys it linger took Oul Tho thousands of residents other children in in Camp yid they won Oil to school As usual in the morning children go to school on saturdays in the Soiu Union they remember trucks Valeting Down Tho so fees Al school they said. Hoy listened to teachers Insun act them on Steps to Lake again so radiation slay indoors when you gel Home Lapo up the windows close the Balcony doors Wash shoes change Ctol hcs and warn your parents Hiya Demidova 14. Said that at school children Werc Given labels and Lold to Lake them Dima Sokoto also 14. Said lessons previously Given about civil Welense were taught Over again the Leacher Lold us everything to do Afler  she said. The main thing was Hal there should be no panic " Misha Telyatnikov remembers i asked mama Why they did l evacuate people she said. So there won t to panic.1" that message Hal Thero was no panic was sir Issod Over and Over to a reporter during talks with the children and Arlen Camp officials the children s accounts reinforced the picture Given in soviet Media of Calm courage and bravery in the face of the disaster which Lias so far claimed 26 lives of course it was a shame to leave our Homes said . 16 but we knew that we had to1 she and others said most the Pri pyal residents were taken about 125 Miles from the plan to the Polesuk Region and welcomed like relatives by those at whose houses they were billeted. Selected for a stay at the coveted Camp primarily because their lathers work at the chernobyl Plant. The Prip Yat children arrived at Artel on May 18 and will be slaying at least until August said Nikolai Pervushin Deputy head of Artel s educational department. The children seemed Happy with the rare Chance to spend the summer Al Artel. Considered the nation a Westcamp Lor the communist parly s Young pioneers the soviet equivalent of boy souls and arts we gave them everything the in l have Sporl shoes bathing suits the things they did 1 have 1,me to grab Pervushin said the children also received medical examinations which revealed mat 25 had above Normal radiation leading according to or Sergei lava Rev the Camp physician he described All the increased readings Asua Avramenko. A 15-Vpar-Oldi  a half mile from the Plant and was found to have her get torsion rearing of 1.1 Mill Roentgen � Urffer orders not to stay in the crimean Sun for Moro than 30 minutes a Day. Pervushin said. Doctor Check one of 110 children sent to summer Camp from Prip Yat near chernobyl nuclear Power Plant blood to cols Laken when the children arrived showed live had slightly abnormal Blofeld cell counts lava Rev said weekly examinations and weekly blood tests taken irom All Iho children showed however that Coll counts were Back to Normal alter two weeks he added lava Rev and Camp Counselor said the Accident has loll no apparent psychological scars on the children the first Day the kids were a Little bit More Down than other children said Camp Counselor Olga Sak Ruto now. She added they have no Jojnes their parents write letters regularly and Many of their relatives and parents come to  two children Oleg and Larisa kno Demchuk have their Mother with them Al Artel. Pervushin said Viktor Kho Denchuk their father was one of two Plant workers killed instantly in the chernobyl Accident. Pervushin said Kho Demchuk is working Al Artel and watching her daughter who underwent an appendectomy while in Camp care he said ail three were Fine but Are still carrying the psychological Burden of the death in their family. Olya Mamidova and Dima Sokolov both said there had been worry in their Ami ties because their fathers had worked at the chernobyl plan during and after the Accident. Dima said his father was a Little bit Sich and Hospi tallied for a week but is line now the Telyatnikov boys seemed buoyant Abou the prospects for the future once their lather gets out of the Hospital. Oleg talked however of two other lir Omen Vladimir Pravnik and Viktor Kib enok who died after receiving massive radiation doses battling the chernobyl fire. They were almost like my Best friends he said i played chess with  olog added that his father writes me letters in his own nand and that he and his brother Aisha would soon pin i heir parents Grandfather and aunt in Moscow. No one knows when if Ever these children will return Home. Our town is really very  said Oksana Arz Hanusova. There Are Many Many roses in our town and that s what i  sunday june 22, 1966 Aisha left Oreg Teiry Atnikov with photo of father a firemen being treated for radiation exposure. The stars and stripes Page 13