#leonid toptunov

[teeth--thief]

Photos of Lyonyd (Leonid?…) Toptunov? I wouldn’t mind rambling on him, also.

- Rodka

I deliberately saved this ask for last (sort of). As a treat for myself and as a threat for everyone else ♡ And for @ur-favorite-basil-enthusiast since he was also interested in seeing The Collection.

I'll have to split this into a few parts - dreaful, I know! - because I can only add 10 pictures to one post while on mobile =( I'll keep reblogging with additional pictures till I run out of things to share. Subscribe for more insane content in the future and don't forget to click that bell icon to...

Part 1

He had manifested to me in a dream when I first started researching Chernobyl, have I ever mentioned that? Well, he has. Which was truly an anomaly because I almost never have any dreams at all... but about that some other time, perhaps.

I am going to put the pictures of him under the cut so nobody gets jumpscared by my Collection of Five Billion White Guy Pictures. And I'll also include some relevant information! Or as relevant as I can make it, at least.

Just to be clear (and safe): I found all of these out in the wild, on da internet. I am, however, pretty sure that at least the collage of his pics from uni times is from @/toptunovleonid on Instagram. So, just to be very clear: all credit for at least that goes to her.

Semi-chronologically, his pictures go like this:

Ignoring that one picture that is barely visible and out of frame in a few pictures of the photo album it's in, because he looks about 10 there and I feel slightly weird about sharing it specifically.

We're in... Tallinn, middle school number 11!

Second boy from the left in the second picture is him. That is he. He who was 15 then. And a 16 year old Lyonya in the left picture, of course.

From this time, one of his classmates remembers him as follows: At school he was quiet, unnoticeable, very shy. I remember he was always hanging out with younger kids. He was chubby. They'd now say he was a "nerd". Alright, we get it, he was a sweet child... Teen? Both? Or was he like this all his life? Either way, please stop before I die from all that sugar...

He's (10th grade) the guy leading the little girl (1st grade). His shapeless hair has charmed me. What's his hair routine and will it work on my curls? Mhm, didn't think so. And first in the second row from the bottom in the small pictures, in case you can't recognise his face yet.

As a bonus - his school certificate from the school in Tallinn he attended until graduating in 1977:

The grades were from 2 (you didn't pass with that one, so that's an F) to 5 (an A, I suppose?). So as you can see, he certainly studied well. What a nerd (affectionately).

Uni territory now! Moscow calling 📞 or, rather, Obninsk and the MEPhI

If you weren't born in any of the USSR countries during The Soviet Times, it'll come as a surprise to you but the students had mandatory... field... work... classes...? if you can call them that. They had them digging potatoes and what not. Nothing screams socialist spirit like making uni students do free labour in the field, I guess?

Pictures with his uni girlfriend, how cuuute! (And Sasha Korol hanging from the roof in the background... for reasons unknown)

Lyonya pretending to drive a combine harvester. And next to him, obviously, Sasha Korol. When I first saw this picture, I thought he was on some kind of a scaffolding but alas - it's one of those old beasts, like our Bizon. But that's not a Bizon because those had roofs. Nobody here cares for USSR combines talk - not even me - let's move on.

Not too sure when these two are from but they look uni enough to me - probably from the very beginning and sometime closer to the end, judging by his stache doing significantly better...

Mandatory military service because a REAL MAN in the USSR needed to know how to shoot a gun, obviously. Even when that meant military service interrupted your uni for a short while. I say that as if no other countries before or after had mandatory army time... don't question it, I'm doing a bit.

Lyonya is second in top row in the picture on the left and third from the left in the top row in the other pic. Korol is there, too, he's fourth from the left in the top row in the first picture and second from the right in the bottom row in the other picture.

#I'll leave my particularly unhinged comments for later pictures. just you wait. wait and quiver in fear #leonid toptunov #file: special interest: chernobyl #chernobyl #file: ask! #asker: rodka

[rotten-flesh-n-bones]

If anyone wants anything, let me know - I’m in the fiery pits of Chernobyl hell! And have been for the last year or so, that’s why the art has been so scarce… this is my brain now.

#chernobyl #leonid toptunov #any Ukrainian nuclear engineers that look like him want to be my boyfriend? no? okay =( #chornobyl #чорнобиль #1986 #mixedmedia #digital drawing #my art #is it fanart if it’s the real guy? I think so #special interest: art edition

[ilikechernobyl]

#leonid toptunov #chernobyl #photos

[reactor-four-official]

my day be so fine

then boom

thinking abt leonid toptunov’s telegram to his mom :(

#reactor four speaks #leonid toptunov

[elenatria]

On May 14, 1986, Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov died from acute radiation poisoning.

He didn't live to see his colleagues being forced to work at gunpoint thirty six years after the "peaceful atom" took his life.

But maybe his spirit lingered on, guarding them when peace was no longer an option for them.

#chernobyl #ukraine #leonid toptunov #toptunov #Леонід Топтунов

[natasharedfox]

The lads are stressed at work

#chernobyl hbo #sasha akimov #leonid toptunov #another day at the office #I'm sure their boss does not add to their stress

[sizzlinggardenerflower]

Я хочу тебя♥️

#chernobyl leonid toptunov

[omgitshelenm16]

I thought I’d make these cause why not

#chernobyl hbo #chernobyl #pavel #bacho #valery legasov #boris shcherbina #Ulana khomyuk #my art #headcannons #anatoly dyatlov #aleksander akimov #lyudmilla ignatenko #lgbt #Leonid toptunov #pacho #valoris

[roseredfingers]

Chernobyl: 1.01

#chernobyl #chernobyl hbo #chernobyledit #perioddramaedit #tvedit #viktor bryukhanov #anatoly dyatlov #nikolai fomin #zharkov #aleksandr akimov #leonid toptunov #valery legasov #donald sumpter #jared harris #tv: chernobyl #m: graphics #*

[teeth--thief]

I found something so so so exciting on VK yesterday (link to the original post), I couldn't believe it, truly - I was looking for pretty pictures of Prypiat, not... this :0 I have no idea if it just surfaced or what but I've never seen it before...

Unless I'm wrong (but we all know I'm never wrong... except for when I'm wrong), this is a written order (permission) for Toptunov to begin his duties as a SIUR under supervision (of one Neretin Yu. A.) - that is one step before he was able to carry out those duties by himself, alone:

Translation (by my best friend ♡):

10.11.85.

Order №324 After the successful passing of exams, [I order to] allow (/permit) SIUR of the 4th block, comrade Toptunov L.F. to conduct the responsible doubling over the course of 24 shifts. The doubling [is] in rotation team (shift) №5. [I order to make] Neretin Yu.A. responsible for [carrying out] the doubling.

ZGIS-II (signature) A.S. Dyatlov (ЗГИС-ІІ Дятлова А.С.)

Signatures on the right (order unknown (because we can't tell)):

��СБ Акимов А.Ф. (NSB Akimov A. F.), СИУР Неретин Ю.А. (SIUR Neretin Yu. A.), ответственный дублёр Топтунов Л.Ф. (Toptunov L.F.), НСРЦ Перевозченко В.И. (NSRC Perevozchenko V.I.)

Someone on VK suggested the sixth one is Kovalenko's but... which one would that be? No idea. The third one is most likely Neretin's and that's where our speculations kinda end. The first one might be Akimov's but... we ain't got no idea. If you have some kind of supernatural powers of reading signatures then, by all means, feel free to make suggestions as to which is which.

The date is also wrong, apparently, as it should have been September. People in the post suggest it was because of the "sloppy attitude towards formalities" which is... fair.

#file: special interest: chernobyl #chernobyl #ChNPP #leonid toptunov

[litttlesilkworm]

A collection of ultra-rare promotional stills of the control room I’ve amassed but never actually posted! Enjoy, dear Comrades! 🤗💖

@lyonyaonthemoon @natasharedfox

#chernobyl #control room #anatoly dyatlov #aleksandr akimov #leonid toptunov #boris stolyarchuk #viktor proskuryakov #igor kirschenbaum

[ilikechernobyl]

#leonid toptunov #chernobyl #photos

[reactor-four-official]

Hey mate

I have an odd question, if you can even call it that. I'm mostly interested in the Human Aspect of the disaster but my research about certain people came to a halt, unfortunately.

And the certain person in question, in this case, is Toptunov. There is so much info (and pictures) on him compared to the rest of the workers, and yet, it's still not enough for me. My biggest problem is quite trivial, really, and can possibly turn out to not help me at all, once solved...: there was a user, both on Reddit and Instagram by the name of @/toptunovleonid. They were last active over a year ago, sharing quite a lot of info on him. Their Instagram is private and so I unfortunately cannot take a peak at what they were posting. And I have a feeling it's all things of great interest to me. (I'm on a side quest to collect all the pictures there are of him, you see and this is not helping. And information, too.)

So my question is: do you or anyone else have access to this account and all their posts, perhaps? :""") it's oddly important to me...

A noble quest!! Unfortunately I do not have any access to these items except the comment history on Reddit. I wish I could access the account, it seems super cool! I’m no expert on the human aspect when compared with other subjects. I don’t really have info on Toptunov you haven’t heard before, otherwise I’d pass it along. Really my only suggestion would be the obvious “DM the account” but as you said they look rather inactive. I’ll try some other methods but I’m not sure they’ll succeed. If I do find something I’ll reblog it on this post.

This information quest looks really cool, if you end up compiling it or making something with all the information you gather you should 100% send it to me.

If anyone else reading this has access to the account or its contents I would love it if you could contact me so I can pass it along.

PS a Leonid Toptunov picture for your trouble.

#chernobyl #asks #leonid toptunov #information request

[kaiserrr19]

Happy Birthday, Leonid...

#chernobyl #chernobyl fandom #leonid toptunov #fanart

[mab1905]

First post for the @chernobylbingo challenge! The prompt was “Little things” so I drew Leonid and Sasha just enjoying some music and alone time on their day off :)

(pls don’t post my art w/out credit)

#chernobylbingo #chernobyl hbo #chernobyl bingo #fanart #gay #art #lgbtq #leonid toptunov #sasha akimov #they only have like 20 min of screen time #i want them to have a spinoff series lmfaooo

[kalula-illychina]

Part of letter written by Anatoly Dyatlov to Toptunov's Parents

Translation

Let me speak my thoughts, for the grievance is throttling me. The real causers of the disaster got off lightly, operators only were put in the wrong. We were presented as kind of cave dwellers. Even names of deceased, loved ones were left to their relatives blotted. They are telling you to remember that your son is a criminal, and he was lucky to die, otherwise he should clap into the prison. Murderers are running the show. The first of them is RBMK project scientific advisor and former head of the Academy of Science Aleksandrov A.P. He was lying for three years. Finally, he allowed himself some sincerity making a speech in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union on April 26th, 1989 (you can find it in the Pravda issue from April 27th, 1989), but in my opinion, he guessed that his sincerity will remain inside the Committee walls. If he'd make even such statement right after the accident knowing everything about it, we all could not be prosecuted. ~[ASDyatlov] June 1st, 1989.

#chernobyl #chernobyl nuclear power plant #anatoly dyatlov #leonid toptunov #soviet union #chernobyl nuclear disaster #pripyat