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Vasily Arkhipov

1926 - 1998

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Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ arˈxʲipəf]; 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998; sometimes romanized as Vasili Arkhipov) 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 1962. The course of events that would have followed such an action cannot be known, but speculations have been advanced, up to and including global thermonuclear war. Off the coast of Cuba, US ships had dropped depth charges. The captain of the diesel-powered Soviet submarine B-59 and the political officer believed that war had started and that they were under attack. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Arkhipov is the 86th most popular military personnel (up from 377th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Russia (up from 317th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Vasily Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer who is most famous for refusing to authorize the use of nuclear weapons against the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasily Arkhipov ranks 86 out of 2,058. Before him are Albrecht von Wallenstein, Nero Claudius Drusus, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Klaus Barbie, and Wild Bill Hickok. After him are Ivan Konev, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, José de San Martín, Subutai, Alexander Suvorov, and Albert Kesselring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Vasily Arkhipov ranks 13. Before him are Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Dario Fo, and Ben Roy Mottelson. After him are Donald A. Glaser, Klaus Kinski, René Goscinny, Sathya Sai Baba, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Nuon Chea. Among people deceased in 1998, Vasily Arkhipov ranks 8. Before him are Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, Halldór Laxness, Alan Hodgkin, Jean Marais, and Allan MacLeod Cormack. After him are Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, Carlos Castaneda, Octavio Paz, and Jean-François Lyotard.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Arkhipov ranks 94 out of 3,761. Before him are Roman Jakobson (1896), Sergey Lavrov (1950), Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Andrei Rublev (1360), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), and Alexis of Russia (1629). After him are Mikhail Kalinin (1875), Ivan Konev (1897), Ivan III of Russia (1440), Michael of Russia (1596), Alexander Suvorov (1730), and Mikhail Lomonosov (1711).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Vasily Arkhipov ranks 4. Before him are Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), and Stanislav Petrov (1939). After him are Ivan Konev (1897), Alexander Suvorov (1730), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Semyon Budyonny (1883), and Felix Steiner (1896).

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