Birthday
1939/09/07
Day of death
2017/05/19 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Vladivostok, Russia
Also know as
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; born c. 1939) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, he was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile was being launched from the United States. Petrov judged the report to be a false alarm, and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United Stat...Read more