What lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces correctly identified a false alarm on 26 September 1983
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1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident On 26 September 1983, the nuclear early warning system of the Soviet Union reported the launch of multiple USAF Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases in the United States. These missile attack warnings were correctly identified as a false alarm by Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack based on erroneous data on the United States and its NATO allies, which would have probably resulted in immediate escalation of the cold-war stalemate to a full-scale nuclear war. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had malfunctioned.
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Stanislav Petrov Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в ; 7 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
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1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision The 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision occurred on 11 August 1979 over the Ukrainian SSR, near the city formerly named Dniprodzerzhynsk. The aircraft involved were both Tupolev Tu-134A's on scheduled domestic passenger flights, operated by Aeroflot.
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Sergey Akhromeyev Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev (Russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ахроме́ев ; May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991) was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983).
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Vasily Reshetnikov Vasily Vasiliyevich Reshetnikov (Russian: Василий Васильевич Решетников ) (born December 23, 1919) was a Soviet pilot during World War II. Reshetnikov flew 307 missions mainly as a pilot for a long-range bomber and in the summer of 1943, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After World War II concluded he was named commander of Air Division, Air Corps. Reshetnikov was subsequently promoted to Colonel General and took command of Long-range Air Forces from 1969 to 1980 and was made Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1986.
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Vladimir Fedorovich Vladimirov Vladimir Fedorovich Vladimirov (Russian: Владимир Фёдорович Владимиров; 9 July 1914 – December 1943) was a Red Army Lieutenant during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for his actions during the Battle of the Dnieper. Vladimirov was killed in action during December 1943.
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Timofey Khryukin Timofey Timofeyevich Khryukin (Russian: Тимофе́й Тимофе́евич Хрю́кин ; 21 June 1910 [O.S. 8 June] , in Yeysk19 July 1953, in Moscow) was a Soviet aviator, Spanish Civil War volunteer, and colonel-general of the Soviet Air Force. Emerging from an impoverished working-class background, he rose to command the 8th Air Army and 1st Air Army during the Second World War, being twice decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union before his death following a period of illness caused by a road accident.
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Ivan Ladyga Ivan Fedorovich Ladyga (Russian: Иван Фёдорович Ладыга ; 1920–2010) was a Soviet-Russian colonel of artillery. He was a Candidate of Military Sciences, a professor, and a corresponding member of the Russian Military Sciences Academy. He was given the award of Honoured Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and a veteran of World War II Ladyga was one of the authors of the Soviet doctrine for using Strategic Missile Troops in combat. Born in 1920 in the village Manuylivka, USSR.
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Konstantin Vershinin Chief marshal of the aviation Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin (Russian: Константин Андреевич Вершинин ; 3 June 1900 – 30 December 1973) was commander of the Soviet Air Force from 1946 to 1949 and from 1957 to 1969.
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Vladimir Danchev Vladimir Danchev was a newscaster at Soviet radio in Moscow, who is famous for calling on the Afghan people to resist the Soviet invasion of their country on 23 May 1983. His controversial encouragement of armed resistance against the Russian military outraged many of his countrymen. However, according to the American political analyst Noam Chomsky and other commentators, his principal transgression was that he embarrassed the Soviet government by contradicting their official ideology, by describing the presence of Soviet forces in Afghanistan as an “invasion.” According to the party line, Russia was not invading Afghanistan; it was defending the Afghan people against terrorists who were funded by foreign sources (the USSR was referring to the Mujahedin and the CIA). Danchev was subsequently sent to a psychiatric hospital and returned to work in December 1983. He was praised in the U.S. media as a hero of free speech and free thought. Danchev was of Russian and Bulgarian descent and grew up in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.
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Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (Russian: Александр Павлович Александров ; born February 20, 1943) is a former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (November 23, 1983 and December 29, 1987).
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Honoured Military Pilot of the USSR The Honorary Title "Honoured Military Pilot of the USSR" (Russian: Заслуженный военный лётчик СССР ) was a state military award of the Soviet Union established on January 26, 1965 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet № 3230-VI to recognise and reward excellence in military aviation. It was abolished on August 22, 1988, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet № 9441-XI.
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Boris Shpitalniy Boris Shpitalniy graduated from MAMI Moscow State Technical University in 1927. Three years later, Boris Shpitalniy together with Irinarkh Komaritsky designed the ShKAS machine gun, a 7.62 mm machine gun widely used by Soviet aircraft in the 1930s and during World War II. In 1939, a small number of Ultra-ShKAS were produced featuring a firing rate of 3,000 rounds per minute, but these saw only limited use due to reliability problems. ShKAS served as the basis for the ShVAK cannon in 1936 (designed in collaboration with Semyon Vladimirov). This 20-mm autocannon was installed in many Soviet aircraft including Yakovlev Yak-1, Polikarpov I-153 and I-16, Lavochkin La-5 and La-7, LaGG-3, early Ilyushin Il-2, and Soviet-modified Hawker Hurricane aircraft, as well as T-38 and T-60 tanks. His 37 mm autocannon, the Sh-37, was less successful though, and saw only brief service between 1941 and 1942.
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Nikolay Ivanovich Smirnov Nikolay Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian Никола́й Ива́нович Смирно́в) (22 September 1917 – 8 July 1992) was a Soviet Navy Admiral and a Hero of the Soviet Union (1984).
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Aleksey Frolovich Solomatin Aleksey Frolovich Solomatin (Russian: Алексе́й Фро́лович Солома́тин ) (1921-1943) was an aviation commander of the Soviet Army, ace during the Great Patriotic War, and Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Kilpyavr (air base) Kilpyavr (Russian: "Килпъявр" or "Килп-Явр", Finnish: "Kilpijärvi". Also appearing in many different forms as "Kilpajärvi", "Kilp-Yavr", "Kil'p-Yar", "Kilp-Yar", "Kilpyarvi") is a military air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia located 30 km northwest of Murmansk. It is a small interceptor base operated by the 941st Fighter Aviation Regiment) (941 IAP). Kilpyavr operated MiG-19, Su-9, and MiG-23M aircraft, and upgraded to Su-27 aircraft in 1985. Google Earth high-resolution satellite imagery dating to around March 2007 showed 37 interceptor aircraft on the tarmac.
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Kosmos 1729 Kosmos 1729 (Russian: Космос 1729 meaning "Cosmos 1729") is a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1986 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors.
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Boris Snetkov Boris Vasilievich Snetkov (Russian: Борис Васильевич Снетков ; 27 February 1925 – 18 September 2006) was a Soviet Army and briefly Russian Ground Forces Army General.
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Christopher Cooke Christopher M. Cooke is a former United States Air Force 2nd Lieutenant who provided classified Titan II missile information to the Soviet embassy in 1981. An Air Force memo described his disclosures of launch codes and other information as "a major security breach ... the worst perhaps in the history of the Air Force."
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Kosmos 1701 Kosmos 1701 (Russian: Космос 1701 meaning "Cosmos 1701") is a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1985 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors.
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1969 Yukhnov mid-air collision The 1969 Yukhnov mid-air collision occurred when an Ilyushin Il-14M, operating as Aeroflot Flight 831, a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow-Bykovo Airport to Simferopol Airport, Crimea collided in the air on 23 June 1969 with an Antonov An-12BP of the Soviet Air Force over the Yukhnovsky district of Kaluga Oblast, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. All 120 occupants of both aircraft perished in the crash.
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Yevdokia Bershanskaya Yevdokia Davidovna Bershanskaya (Russian: "Евдоки́я Давы́довна Берша́нская"; Dobrovolnoye, Stavropol, February 6, 1913 – September 16, 1982 in Moscow) was a Soviet pilot in World War II and second in command of the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.