In 1984 , he became a vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers and as such was in charge of dealing with the Chernobyl disaster outcome in 1986 . Shcherbina served in a similar role after the catastrophic 1988 Armenian earthquake . He proposed inviting international rescuers – from Austria and Czechoslovakia – who had thermal imagers and specially trained dogs at their disposal to search for living people
1988 Armenian earthquake
1988 Armenian earthquake
Boris Shcherbina