One of the men who worked amidst high radioactivity levels to quell the consequences of the 1986 disaster at the Chornobyl power station, committed suicide after watching the HBO serialized television dramatization about the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Nagashibay Zhusupov, a resident of the city of Aktobe in Kazakhstan, died after leaping from the roof of the five-story building he lived in, according to his daughter, Gaukhar, 25, who spoke to British internet publication MailOnline.

She said her 61-year old father had been depressed because the Soviet, and later, the Kazakh government, failed to honor promises to give him, and many others, better housing in reward for their heroism.

Zhusupov was one of the thousands of Soviet soldiers, firefighters and others drafted in to clean up the area around the devastated Number Four reactor which had exploded after an experiment went horribly wrong at the plant.

Called “liquidators,” they wore sparse protective clothing and, although sent into the most dangerous areas for only limited periods, they were still exposed to high radiation levels which killed many within weeks or months and others much later.

In common with many others who tackled the disaster, he was promised an apartment and a higher pension.

But instead, said Gaukhar, her 61-year-old father received medals and certificates praising his heroism but the apartment never materialized and Zhusupov was forced to live with his wife and five children in a single-room of a communal building.

She said that watching the American-British serial “Chernobyl” HBO stirred up her father’s bitter disappointment at not getting the living quarters he had been promised by the Soviet government and which the Kazakh authorities were supposed to follow through on after declaring their own independence from the disintegrating USSR.

Gaukhar said that the authorities crossed his name off the waiting list for the apartment after he had waited 10 years and that had destroyed his health.

The head of the Kazakh “liquidators” organization, Bakitzhan Satov, said that Zhusupov had been one of the first men at the scene after the reactor explosion.