Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov

By demolition- man
  • Birth of a hero

    Birth of a hero

    vasilithe day vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov was born
  • day he joined the Navy

    day he joined the Navy

    Vasili joins the Soviet Navy at age 16

  • schooling

    attended a Pacific Higher Naval School and was in soviet-Japanese war.

  • made a move

    made tranfer and graduated from Caspin Higher NAval School

  • rising in the ranks

    appointed deputy-commander

  • melt down

    nuclear failure on sub causes panic and mutiny but vasili helps the captin calm the crew an make an emergency cooling system

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of eleven United States Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph located the diesel-powered nuclear-armed Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine B-59 near Cuba.
  • honors

    honors

    obtained the order of the red banner and order of the red star
  • Crisis Adverted

    Crisis Adverted

    The day he stopped the nuke.
  • Death date

    Death date

    He died in 1998 at the age of 72 from expoure to radiation in the k-19 incident.

  • hero of the world

    hero