Watching an old Chernobyl documentary, with footage from a variety of clean up, and one of the entries is of the soldiers who remmoved the blocks from the ceiling of Reactor 4. They are told they will receive 50 rubles for this one minute of work.
So I'm curious, what were some other bonuses or bounties paid out for different tasks? And, that 50 rubles seems like an extremely small sum for the risk involved, but is this an accurate take?
You might be interested in this previous (Chernobyl-related) answer I wrote about what you could buy in the USSR with 800 rubles in 1986.
To pull out some relevant data: more than half of households were earning between 100 and 200 rubles a month in 1986, and only the top 1% earned over 300 rubles a month.
So for six minutes' of work, you'd be earning a month's salary of the top 1% of Soviet earners. Which sounds like a decent deal except that 1) it's not worth the dangerous levels of radiation you'd actually be exposed to and 2) as I note in that answer there were very limited ways you could spend that cash anyway, because of how the Soviet economy operated.