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Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ arˈxʲipəf]; 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998) was a senior Soviet Naval officer who prevented a Soviet submarine from launching a nuclear torpedo against ships of the United States Navy at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. Soviet Air Defence Forces officer (1939–2017) For the footballer, see Stanislav Petrov (footballer). In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yevgrafovich and the family name is Petrov. Stanislav Petrov Petrov in 2016 Born Stanislav Yevgrafovich ...
The incident occurred at a time of severely strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. [1] Responding to the Soviet Union's deployment of fourteen SS-20/RSD-10 theatre nuclear missiles, the NATO Double-Track Decision was taken in December 1979 by the military commander of NATO to deploy 108 Pershing II nuclear missiles in Western Europe with the ability to hit targets ...
A Russian naval officer who allegedly commanded a deadly missile strike on Ukraine has reportedly been assassinated while out jogging, after being tracked on a running app.. Stanislav Rzhitsky was ...
Irina Rybakova/Press service of the Ukrainian ground forces/ReutersThe Ukrainian defense ministry has released audio from a call that it claims captured two Russian officers lamenting the death of ...
Found dead in her apartment, her boss Vladimir Sungorkin died suddenly the year prior. [93] [94] Evgeny Postrigan 50 Chief accountant at sanctioned Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev: December 2023 1 Zheleznogorsk, Siberia Found dead at the garage of his property, cause of death asphyxiation. [95] Vladimir Egorov: 46
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had foiled several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill high-ranking Russian officers and their families in ...
Stanislav Lunev was born in Leningrad, to the family of a Soviet Army officer. He graduated from the Suvorov Military School in Vladikavkaz and then from Joint Arms High Command Military Academy. [1] He then worked as a GRU intelligence officer in Singapore in 1978, in China from 1980, and in the United States from 1988. He defected to U.S ...