Fun fact: The character from the 2009 stop-motion movie Coraline, Mr. Bobinsky, wears throughout the movie the medal given to the Liquidators of the Chernobyl Disaster, the personnel tasked with the clean up operation of the destroyed reactor 4, the city of Pripyat, and the Zone of Alienation, not to mention those tasked with the construction of the Shelter Object (Об'єкт “Укриття”), better known as the sarcophagus, the structure that contains the reactor 4, and those who served as helicopter pilots, firemen, miners and divers during the initial efforts to stop the spread of radioactive contamination. 

Confirming his status as a former Liquidator, while at the same time explaining his unique skin color and physique: Radiation contamination.