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17 is still a teenager
He still didn't work in the mine until he was 20.
As already said there are multiple contradicting sources. Regardless of if he was working in a mine as an actual teenager or one year out of his teenage years as your source implies: that still proves that his portrayal in the Chernobyl show as an out-of-touch bureaucrat that had never worked in a mine is false.
That along with other changes to reality and outright fabrications of events and and people like 'Ulana Khomyuk' shows that it is not historically accurate(even beyond the 'dramatic license' given to works of entertainment portraying historical events) and is written by biased westerners who go to lengths to portray Soviet officials as more inexperienced, sexist etc than they were in reality