Stanislav Petrov
Date of birth: September 7th 1939 (85 years)
Place of birth: Vladivostok, Russia
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... Read more
