title: Wladimir Tchertkoff
text: # Wladimir Tchertkoff
  
  Wladimir Tchertkoff (1935 – 9 April 2023) was an Italian journalist.
  
  He was born in Yugoslavia to Russian-born parents. He released with Emanuela Andreoli in 2003 the film The Sacrifice, a documentary on the liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This film received an award from the Île-de-France council for the best scientific and environment documentary in November 2004.
  
  He has also received the award of the best documentary of the Festival of Scientific Movies of Oullins, France.
  
  Tchertkoff is the author of Le Crime de Tchernobyl, le Goulag nucléaire (The Crime of Chernobyl, the Nuclear Goulag) published by Actes Sud, Paris.
  
  He was also one of the founders of the organisation Children of Chernobyl Belarus.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  * (in French) The Atomic Trap (Le Piège atomique) (see online). 47 mn Documentary (1998).
  