Chernobyl prayer. Chronicle of the future. Aleksievich S.A.

The main technogenic disaster of the 20th century is the fourth book of the famous artistic and documentary cycle of the Voice of Utopia, Svetlana Aleksievich, Nobel Prize laureate in literature “For polyphonic creativity - a monument to suffering and courage of our time”. “Two disasters coincided: cosmic - Chernobyl, and social - a huge socialist mainland went under the water. And this, the second, the crash overshadowed the cosmic, because it is closer and more understandable to us. What happened in Chernobyl was for the first time on Earth, and we are the first people who survived this. ” “Chernobyl prayer” is published in the new author’s version, with the addition of 30 percent of the new text, with the restoration of fragments excluded from previous publications for censorship reasons.