Alexander Sirota
Alexander Sirota is a Ukrainian photographer, journalist, filmmaker. He writes in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. As a former inhabitant of city Pripyat and an eyewitness and victim of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster he has devoted many articles, photography and video reports to Pripyat and Chernobyl catastrophe. He was the editorinchief the Internet of the project pripyat.com, vicepresident of the International public organization Center Pripyat.com. In May, 2008 he became the winner of the th International competition of films, TVprograms, Internetprojects on the lawprotective and lawenforcement 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.
Alexander Sirota was born on June 7, 1976 in village Kiselevka of the Kherson area, Ukraine. Since 1980 he lived in Kherson, then in Komsomolsk city of the Poltava area. And from 1983 he lived with his mother in the new city of Pripyat , where he studied in the school to April 26, 1986 before the Chernobyl catastrophe.
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