Authorities and the Press Facing the Accident on Chernobyl Nuclear Station
A position and actions of representatives of the authority and journalists of printing mass-media of Soviet Union in the first days and months after technogenic accident on the Chernobyl NPP have been analyzed in the article. The press of all levels - central, regional (republican) and local (district and corporative) is presented. The author mentions the important theme of specificity of journalists work and behaviour in zones of technogenic accidents and, as consequence, a problem of influence of the information on a life of people in the suffered areas and on morals of a society as a whole.