https://youtu.be/73oXJu32LJ0?t=2365
"Sembrava di nuovo il 1941 quando il cuore dell'Unione Sovietica subì l'invasione nazista, anche allora c'era la stessa mancanza di preparazione, la stessa disperazione, ma anche lo stesso coraggio."
There were three of them who jumped in, their names were: Valeri Bezpalov, Alexie Ananenko and Boris Baranov. Valeri and Alexie were engineers at the plant, Boris was a plant worker. They had full knowledge of the danger, they dived down with scuba gear and a lamp, which failed however they still managed to find the valve. Valeri and Alexie died two weeks later in a Moscow hospital with Boris succumbing to death not long after. It is said that the radiation levels on their bodies were so high that they had to be buried in a lead coffin which was soldered shut.
