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Stanislav Petrov
Actor
Born September 7, 1939Died May 19, 2017 (77 years)
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 States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the satellite warning system had malfunctioned.
Filmography
| 2014 | The Man Who Saved the World · as Self |
| 2011 | The Red Button · as Self |
| 2007 | Soviet War Scare 1983 · as Self |
| 2000 | ZDF-History (TV Series) · as Self - Oberstleutnant Sowj. Raketenstreitkräfte |