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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Norwegian shipping company on Friday rejected an accusation from Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, that it refused to rescue sailors from a sinking Russian cargo ...
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges linked to attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine that judges said ...
Very little is publicly known about Soviet/Russian missile crew members. Following Soviet doctrine, launch control functions are entrusted to higher-ranking officers (lieutenant colonel equivalents), in contrast to United States policy of entrusting lower-ranking officers (captains and lieutenants) with day-to-day functions.
Vadim Konoschenok, who was extradited on Thursday from Estonia, entered the plea at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ramon Reyes ordered Konoschenok detained pending ...
The Kara-class cruiser Nikolayev, Bogdashin's ship after his graduation from the P. S. Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School. Bogdashin was born on 14 March 1952 into a Russian family in the town of Pugachyov, Saratov Oblast, in the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union.