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Yablokov & Nesterenko: Prefacexi• Chernobyl: 20 Years On. Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident [C. C. Busby and A.V.Yablokov (Eds.) (2006), European Committee on Radiation Risk, Green Audit,Aberystwyth, 250 pp.].• Chernobyl. 20 Years After. Myth and Truth [A. Yablokov, R. Braun, and U. Watermann(Eds.) (2006), Agenda Verlag, Münster, 217 pp.].• “Health Effects of Chernobyl: 20 Years after the Reactor Catastrophe” [S. Pflugbeilet al. (2006), German IPPNW, Berlin, 76 pp.].• Twenty Years after the Chernobyl Accident: Future Outlook [Contributed Papersto International Conference. April 24–26, 2006. Kiev, Ukraine, vol. 1–3, HOLTEHKiev, www.tesec-int.org/T1.pdf].• Twenty Years of Chernobyl Catastrophe: Ecological and Sociological Lessons. Materialsof the International Scientific and Practical Conference. June 5, 2006, Moscow,305 pp., www.ecopolicy.ru/upload/File/conferencebook_2006.pdf, (in Russian).• National Belarussian Report (2006). Twenty Years after the Chernobyl Catastrophe:Consequences in Belarus and Overcoming the Obstacles. Shevchyuk, V. E, &Gurachevsky, V. L. (Eds.), Belarus Publishers, Minsk, 112 pp. (in Russian).• National Ukrainian Report (2006). Twenty Years of Chernobyl Catastrophe: FutureOutlook. Kiev, http://www.mns.gov.ua/news show.php?news id=614&p=1.• National Russian Report (2006). Twenty Years of Chernobyl Catastrophe: Resultsand Perspective on Efforts to Overcome Its Consequences in Russia, 1986–2006.Shoigu, S. K. & Bol’shov, L. A. (Eds.), Ministry of Emergencies, Moscow, 92 pp. (inRussian).The scientific literature on the consequences of the catastrophe now includes morethan 30,000 publications, mainly in Slavic languages. Millions of documents/materialsexist in various Internet information systems—descriptions, memoirs, maps, photos, etc.For example in GOOGLE there are 14.5 million; in YANDEX, 1.87 million; and inRAMBLER, 1.25 million citations. There are many special Chernobyl Internet portals,especially numerous for “Children of Chernobyl” and for the Chernobyl CleanupWorkers (“Liquidators so called”) organizations. The Chernobyl Digest—scientific abstractcollections—was published in Minsk with the participation of many Byelorussian andRussian scientific institutes and includes several thousand annotated publications datingto 1990. At the same time the IAEA/WHO “Chernobyl Forum” Report (2005), advertisedby WHO and IAEA as “the fullest and objective review” of the consequences ofthe Chernobyl accident, mentions only 350 mainly English publications.The list of the literature incorporated into the present volume includes about 1,000titles and reflects more than 5,000 printed and Internet publications, primarily in Slaviclanguages. However, the authors apologize in advance to those colleagues whose papersaddressing the consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe are not mentioned in thisreview—to list all papers is physically impossible.The authors of the separate parts of this volume are:• Chapter I: Cherbobyl Contamination: An Overview—A. V. Yablokov and V. B.Nesterenko;• Chapter II: Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe for Public Health—A. V.Yablokov;• Chapter III: Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe for the Environment—A. V. Yablokov, V. B. Nesterenko, and A. V. Nesterenko;