Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko (Ukrainian: ?????? ???????? ?????????; Belarusian: ?????? ???????? ?????????; Russian: ??????? ???????? ?????????; 13 March 1961 – 13 May 1986) was a Soviet firefighter who was one of the first responders at the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, on the night of 26 April 1986.