Who is Boris Shcherbina in Chernobyl?

Boris Shcherbina (The party man) is a character in Chernobyl, part of Party & State. Boris Shcherbina, deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, is sent to Chernobyl to manage the scientists and report upward — a career apparatchik who has moved concrete, pipelines, and men his whole life and expects atoms to obey the same way. He begins by threatening to throw Legasov from a helicopter. The education of Boris Shcherbina — in physics, in honesty, in what his state actually is — becomes one of the disaster's quiet, enormous stories.

When does Boris Shcherbina first appear?

Boris Shcherbina first appears in Season 1, Episode 2 (“Please Remain Calm”) of Chernobyl (2019, HBO).

Who is Boris Shcherbina connected to?

Relationships already established when Boris Shcherbina first appears — nothing from later episodes.

• Valery Legasov — Scientist and apparatchik — forged partners
• General Pikalov — The state's two kinds of duty

Which group does Boris Shcherbina belong to?

By the time Boris Shcherbina appears, Party & State also includes General Pikalov.

Who else is introduced in this episode?

• Ulana Khomyuk — The one who asks why
• General Pikalov — The general who drove himself

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