But it didn’t happen, because that’s when Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov steps into the story. Soviet submarine captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov.

The fact that this terrifying doomsday scenario didn’t happen is down to one man, Vasili Arkhipov, who was 34 at the time, Savitsky’s equal and the flotilla commander responsible for three ...

You many not be familiar with the name Vasili Arkhipov, but maybe you should be. He's the Soviet Navy man who stopped nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the '60s. Arkhipov, AKA the man ...

And we should celebrate those, like Vasili Arkhipov, who in moments of existential decision, choose life rather than extinction. You’ve read 1 article in the last month.

Vasili Arkhipov was born into a peasant family near Moscow in 1926. After serving as a minesweeper in World War II, he began working aboard Soviet submarines in 1947, ...

“Vasili Arkhipov is arguably the most important person in modern history, thanks to whom October 27, 2017 isn’t the 55th anniversary of WWIII.

The Man Who Saved the World, premiering Tuesday, October 23 at 9 pm ET on PBS (check local listings), tells the unsung story of Soviet naval officer Vasili Arkhipov, the Brigade Chief of Staff on ...

Unknown to the world, Russian officer Vasili Arkhipov single-handedly averted nuclear war at the height of the Cuban missile crisis ...

Unknown to the world, Russian officer Vasili Arkhipov single-handedly averted nuclear war at the height of the Cuban missile crisis The world only found out about Arkhipov's heroics 50 years later ...