| Valery Bespalov | |
| Native Name: | Валерий Беспалов |
| Birth Date: | 1957 9, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Lisivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Citizenship: | USSR → Ukraine |
| Awards: | Hero of Ukraine |
Valery Alekseyevich Bespalov (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Беспалов; Ukrainian: Валерій Олексійович Беспалов|Valerii Oleksiiovych Bespalov; born 21 September 1957) is an engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. After the Chernobyl disaster, he was one of the three men in the "suicide squad" team to drain the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building. In 2019 he was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.[1] [2] [3]
Despite media reports claiming the three men died of radiation poisoning shortly after the incident, he remains alive in Kyiv as of 2019.[4]