Vasili Arkhipov
🎬 Actor
Born
30 January 1926 (100)
Also known as
The Man Who Saved the World, Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov
Biography
Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов; 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998) was a Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a nuclear strike and potentially all-out nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
