Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov (6 May 1953 – 11 May 1986) was the shift supervisor of the night crew that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant or Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Ukraine–Belarus border, and about north of Kiev. Reactor 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in...

 Unit #4 on the night of the accident

Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine , which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities in Moscow...

, April 26, 1986. He opposed conducting the test in such conditions of the reactor, but was ordered to continue by his superior. He worked with his crew in the reactor building until morning, trying to pump water into the exposed reactor. None of them wore any protective gear. He died three weeks after the accident due to radiation poisoning

Radiation poisoning

Acute radiation syndrome also known as radiation poisoning, radiation sickness or radiation toxicity, is a constellation of health effects which occur within several months of exposure to high amounts of ionizing radiation...

, at the age of 33. In the enquiry, he and his co-workers were blamed, but this turned out to be not true, and later blamed on the plant's director and manager, as they did not adhere to guidelines.