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Witness History: Rock concert for Chernobyl

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Rock concert for Chernobyl

27/05/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Rock concert for Chernobyl

The first charity rock concert ever held in the USSR raised money for Chernobyl survivors

A small group of musicians staged the first charity rock concert ever held in the USSR in May 1986. It raised money for victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

On May 31st 1986 a small group of musicians staged the first charity rock concert ever held in the USSR. It was organised in less than two weeks to raise money for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. The nuclear reactor accident had happened just a month before in Ukraine. Some of the artists who played at the concert had been previously banned by the Soviet authorities, so the concert was a social revolution, as organiser - Artemy Troitsky explains to Rebecca Kesby.

(PHOTO Credit Sputnik: 1986 Charity concert arranged to raise funds for accident management at the Chernobyl power station. Olimpiysky sports complex.)

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