Stanislav Petrov
Acting
Born September 7, 1939 — Died May 19, 2017
From Vladivostok, Russia
Also known as Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov
Biography
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 missil...
