December 14, Ukraine honors the Chornobyl accident consequences liquidators.
 
The date to honor the liquidators is chosen not without reason. On November 30, 1986, the sarcophagus construction over the Unit 4 was completed, and two weeks later, on December 14, the main CPSU newspaper “Pravda" and other central publications of USSR published the Statement of the Central Committee of CPSU and the Council of Ministers that the State Commission had been commissioned the complex of protective structures of ChNPP Unit 4. Namely the date of this statement publication became “Day of Chornobyl accident consequences liquidation participants honoring”.
 
Despite the fact that the Liquidators Day was officially established only in 2006, it is commemorated in Ukraine since 1986, when the NPP’s accident consequences liquidators gathered together to celebrate their first victory.

Read more: Accident and its Elimination

Yes, this isn’t a holiday. It's a day-reminder about the persons who, at the cost of health, and sometimes at the cost of life, within only six months without a design, without complaints that nobody has ever performed before such works, built a construction, insulated a damaged power Unit from the Environment. And then made the ChNPP industrial site suitable for further work and restarted the power generation.
 
This is a motivation day to once again to thank to each of the liquidators — while they are still alive and can feel this deserved appreciation.