In the Tula region, in the Shakhtar boarding house in Bunyrevo, on a sign with the name of the chemist Valery Legasov, they hung a photo of the actor Jared Harris who played him, Tula News reports, citing Alexandra Afanasyeva, a resident of Novomoskovsk, who drew attention to the discrepancy.

One of the sites on the territory of the sanatorium was named after the academician. “With an elementary google of the last name, in the search you can easily find both the biography and the photo of Legasov. How was it necessary to rush, or I don’t know how to look in order to take a photo of the actor who played him? ”The woman is indignant at the appearance of a portrait of the Chernobyl star on the plate.

The mini-series "Chernobyl", filmed by HBO in collaboration with the British television network Sky, was released in 2019, it is dedicated to the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.

Valery Alekseevich Legasov, a native of Tula, was the deputy head of the Government Commission for the elimination of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In 1986, being one of the ten most famous scientists in the world, he flew to Chernobyl as part of the Government Commission and was directly involved in the work to eliminate the accident. He received a significant dose of radiation, 4 times the maximum allowable rate. In 1988, he died after a third suicide attempt.

Earlier it was reported that the authors of the Harry Potter reunion confused Emma Watson with another actress.

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