Unpublished documents and testimony from the criminal investigation

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Anyone who has read this far will no doubt be familiar with Nikolai Steinberg's involvement in Chernobyl's aftermath. After spearheading the reinvestigation that led to the publication of INSAG-7, many private documents from the Soviet prosecutor's office wound up in boxes on his balcony, where they would remain for the next thirty years. Shortly before the 2022 invasion, former liquidator and Chernobyl Museum curator Sergei Babakov (земля ему пухом) produced scans of some of these documents. They have been transcribed and translated below, with limited commentary.

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