Чернобыльская молитва (Voices from Chernobyl) influenced Chernobyl

Craig Mazin has named Voices from Chernobyl as the principal source for the series, and it is credited on screen. Alexievich's book is not a history; it is hundreds of first-person accounts collected over ten years, from liquidators, wives, evacuated villagers and children. The series takes its texture and several of its scenes directly from those testimonies rather than from the technical record. The clearest case is the firefighter's wife: her account in the book, of visiting an irradiated husband in a Moscow hospital and what happened to the child, is the spine of the series' most-discussed storyline.