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Vasily Arkhipov

1926 - 1998

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Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов; 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998), also transliterated as Vasili Arkhipov, was a vice admiral in the Soviet Navy. He is best remembered for preventing nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. At the time of the crisis, Arkhipov was serving as chief of staff of a Soviet submarine flotilla and was aboard the submarine B-59 as executive officer. Launch authorization required the agreement of all three senior officers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2024). Vasily Arkhipov is the 86th most popular military personnel (up from 377th in 2024), 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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