Alexander Sirota
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Alexander Sirota; (born June 7, 1976, in Kiselivka of the Kherson
area of Ukraine
) — Ukrainian photographer, journalist
, filmmaker. He writes in Russian
and Ukrainian language
s. As a former inhabitant of city Pripyat
and one of eye-witnesses and of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster he has devoted to Pripyat and Chernobyl catastrophe
the big part of his articles, photo- and video-reportings.
He was the editor-in-chief the Internet of the project pripyat.com, vice-president of the International public organization "Center Pripyat.com".
In May, 2008 he became the winner of the ІХ-th International competition of films, TV-programs, Internet-projects on the law-protective and law-enforcement subjects "Golden George" and has received the diploma and a prize "The Big Tape of George".
Member of the Union of journalists of Ukraine since 2008.
. Since 1980 he lived in Kherson
, then — in Komsomolsk city of the Poltava
area. And from 1983 he lived with his mother (Lyubov Sirota
) in the new city of Pripyat
(the satellite of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
— only 1,5 kilometers distant), where he studied in the school № 1 to April 26, 1986 before the Chernobyl catastrophe.
On April, 27 all inhabitants of Pripyat where evacuated.
Since 1987, he lives in Kiev
where in 1994 finished high school № 267. He has studied in Kiev International Solomonov University on the historical faculty. He has worked in the Kiev "Green device of city", the operator of the gas station, the worker of installation of the equipment in the firm of civil engineering, then — as technical director and the deputy director on commerce in several companies on the construction of swimming pools.
The article of Alexander Sirota about Chernobyl tragedy "I want them to remember" was the first experience of journalistic work, which at once has been translated into English and is published in the magazine of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations.
After this publication, in April, 1996 has been invited by International ecological organization Greenpeace
in the USA for participation in the international action GREENPEACE "Testimonies tours", where Alexander Sirota (nicknamed "Sasha") was included as the representative of Ukraine in mass actions and meetings with the public and the Ukrainian diaspora, which were devoted the 10th anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophe.
Now his articles and photoreportings are published in various mass-media (including the newspapers "Literature Ukraine", "PostChernobyl", "Your Health", etc.), and his video-reportings were included in the programs of many Ukrainian and Russian TV channels and in BBC.
In December, 2006 his video-reporting about the marauding in the Chernobyl zone and Pripyat was broadcast by the 5th channel of the Ukrainian TV. As a result, the criminal charges of plunder and export of materials from the radiation-polluted zone were filed and a governmental commission for investigation was created.
From January till March, 2005 on public principles worked as the editor of the section “Literature and the Art” of the Internet—project Pripyat.com. Then and nowadays he works as the editor-in-chief of this site.
In 2006 also he has been elected by Vice-president of the International public organization the "Center PRIPYAT.com", the primary goal of which is the report of the truthful information about the thrown city Pripyat, Chernobyl catastrophe and its consequences to the most people of the world. Just with this purpose they organizes and carries out fact-finding excursions in the Chernobyl zone and Pripyat. As Alexander has told in the interview to the correspondent of Russian Information Agency (RIA NEWS) Ivan Sheglov: "I would like very much that everyone, who visited Pripyat, could not live so that a dead cities there were after him..."
On the website pripyat.com as editor-in-chief Sirota has placed "An Appeal to the President, the Government and the Supreme Rada of Ukraine, to the Chapters of all countries of the world, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the United Nations"
A petition to make Pripyat a city-monument initiated together with the newspaper "Literature Ukraine" for granting to city of Pripyat of the International status of the City-museum, and to the 15-km zone of alienation around of Pripyat, including the city Chernobyl, — the status of historical-ecological reservation, as the monument of the greatest technological accident of a planet.
Also among many projects of Pripyat.com is still one project named "The Photo of your home" also very interesting for the former inhabitants of Pripyat.
Kherson
Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry...
area of Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
) — Ukrainian photographer, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, filmmaker. He writes in Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
and Ukrainian language
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
s. As a former inhabitant of city Pripyat
Prypiat, Ukraine
Pripyat is a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kiev Oblast of northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus....
and one of eye-witnesses and of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster he has devoted to Pripyat and Chernobyl catastrophe
Chernobyl
Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932....
the big part of his articles, photo- and video-reportings.
He was the editor-in-chief the Internet of the project pripyat.com, vice-president of the International public organization "Center Pripyat.com".
In May, 2008 he became the winner of the ІХ-th International competition of films, TV-programs, Internet-projects on the law-protective and law-enforcement subjects "Golden George" and has received the diploma and a prize "The Big Tape of George".
Member of the Union of journalists of Ukraine since 2008.
Biography
Alexander Sirota was born on June 7, 1976 in village Kiselevka of the Kherson area, UkraineUkraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. Since 1980 he lived in Kherson
Kherson
Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry...
, then — in Komsomolsk city of the Poltava
Poltava
Poltava is a city in located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Poltava Oblast , as well as the surrounding Poltava Raion of the oblast. Poltava's estimated population is 298,652 ....
area. And from 1983 he lived with his mother (Lyubov Sirota
Lyubov Sirota
Lyubov Sirota is a Ukrainian poet, writer, playwright, journalist and translator. As a former inhabitant of the city of Pripyat and an eyewitness of the Chernobyl disaster, she has devoted a great part of her creative output to the 1986 catastrophe...
) in the new city of Pripyat
Prypiat, Ukraine
Pripyat is a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kiev Oblast of northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus....
(the satellite of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant or Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Ukraine–Belarus border, and about north of Kiev. Reactor 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in...
— only 1,5 kilometers distant), where he studied in the school № 1 to April 26, 1986 before the Chernobyl catastrophe.
On April, 27 all inhabitants of Pripyat where evacuated.
Since 1987, he lives in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
where in 1994 finished high school № 267. He has studied in Kiev International Solomonov University on the historical faculty. He has worked in the Kiev "Green device of city", the operator of the gas station, the worker of installation of the equipment in the firm of civil engineering, then — as technical director and the deputy director on commerce in several companies on the construction of swimming pools.
The article of Alexander Sirota about Chernobyl tragedy "I want them to remember" was the first experience of journalistic work, which at once has been translated into English and is published in the magazine of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations.
After this publication, in April, 1996 has been invited by International ecological organization Greenpeace
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
in the USA for participation in the international action GREENPEACE "Testimonies tours", where Alexander Sirota (nicknamed "Sasha") was included as the representative of Ukraine in mass actions and meetings with the public and the Ukrainian diaspora, which were devoted the 10th anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophe.
Now his articles and photoreportings are published in various mass-media (including the newspapers "Literature Ukraine", "PostChernobyl", "Your Health", etc.), and his video-reportings were included in the programs of many Ukrainian and Russian TV channels and in BBC.
In December, 2006 his video-reporting about the marauding in the Chernobyl zone and Pripyat was broadcast by the 5th channel of the Ukrainian TV. As a result, the criminal charges of plunder and export of materials from the radiation-polluted zone were filed and a governmental commission for investigation was created.
From January till March, 2005 on public principles worked as the editor of the section “Literature and the Art” of the Internet—project Pripyat.com. Then and nowadays he works as the editor-in-chief of this site.
In 2006 also he has been elected by Vice-president of the International public organization the "Center PRIPYAT.com", the primary goal of which is the report of the truthful information about the thrown city Pripyat, Chernobyl catastrophe and its consequences to the most people of the world. Just with this purpose they organizes and carries out fact-finding excursions in the Chernobyl zone and Pripyat. As Alexander has told in the interview to the correspondent of Russian Information Agency (RIA NEWS) Ivan Sheglov: "I would like very much that everyone, who visited Pripyat, could not live so that a dead cities there were after him..."
On the website pripyat.com as editor-in-chief Sirota has placed "An Appeal to the President, the Government and the Supreme Rada of Ukraine, to the Chapters of all countries of the world, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the United Nations"
A petition to make Pripyat a city-monument initiated together with the newspaper "Literature Ukraine" for granting to city of Pripyat of the International status of the City-museum, and to the 15-km zone of alienation around of Pripyat, including the city Chernobyl, — the status of historical-ecological reservation, as the monument of the greatest technological accident of a planet.
Also among many projects of Pripyat.com is still one project named "The Photo of your home" also very interesting for the former inhabitants of Pripyat.
Articles, interviews, a photo- and video-reports
- "I want them to remember" — DHA NEWS No.16, September/October 1995
- Pripyat 2006. Winter
- Pripyat. Winter 2006. Photo report, part 2
- "Zone. Prypyat. Winter-2006" — 2006" — video.
- Specially for PRIPYAT.COM. Interview with Rollan Sergienko, the director of the most well-known films about Chernobyl — the newspaper “PostChornobyl” (29), March 2006 (in Ukrainian).
- "Spring walk in Pripyat" — 2006 — video.
- Video-reportng about the visiting of Chernobyl Zone by the writers of the festival “EUROCON — 2006”
- Report about visiting Chernobyl atomic power station in November, 30, 2006 — photos and video
- Flight above Chernobyl, 2007 — video.
- Pripyat from height of the bird's flight. Photo-reporting, 2007
- Video-interview of the former Deputy Chairman of the Pripyat City Executive Committee, Alexander Esaulov
- The seminar for mass-media on Chernobyl atomic power station. Photo-reporting, 2007
- Pripyat, May, 9, 2007.The picture story
- "Presentation of the site Pripyat.com", 2007 — video.
- "WE'LL UNDERSTAND LATER", 2009 — the film about still alive Pripyat.
- Channel 5: Pripyat the City-Museum — video reporting of Alexander Sirota about initiative of the granting to city of Pripyat of the International status of the City-museum
- Old-New Year in Pripyat, 13-14.01.2010 - photos of Alexander Sirota
External links
- Photos from Pripyat
- Pripyat in photos and video of Alexander Sirota
- Cleaning in Pripyat— the video scene of 5-th channel Ukrainian TV.
- "Our Pripyat" — YouTube channel with some films of Alexander Sirota
- Sashen'ka on the Exhibition — the short film about his small daughter.
- “Radiophobia” — film Julio Soto: Spain/USA/Ukraine, 2005, 56min (Alexander Sirota is one from heroes of this film)
- Virtual Pripyat
- The International photo-exhibition of Pripyat "We want that people remembered it", 2009
- The New generation of Ukrainian people does not know about lessons of Chernobyl — the TV's bridge Moscow-Kiev "Chernobyl: the human factor in technological accidents", Russian Information Agency of News, Moscow, 28.01.2010
- The Photo-reporting. The TV's bridge Moscow-Kiev, 28.01.2010 — RIA of News
- Pripyat 2011: Soviet dream turned nuclear nightmare
- "Chernobyl: The Zone of Silence" — to 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.