But it didn’t happen, because that’s when Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov steps into the story. Soviet submarine captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov Photo courtesy of M. Yarovskaya and A.

If you were born before October 27, 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history. The Cuban missile crisis was in full flow. An American spy plane ...

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 Armageddon didn’t happen because of one man - a softly-spoken, calm-headed Russian submarine officer called Vasili Arkhipov to whom all of us today owe our lives. Only 50 years later did ...

Vasili Arkhipov was aboard the B-59 Soviet submarine when an American destroyer, the USS Beale began to drop depth charges. His captain Valentin Savitsky was unaware that they were non-lethal ...

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 ...