The person who saved the world from the nuclear war 1983. The person who kept the light from the nuclear war died. The unforgettable hero of our time

The one who escaped the nuclear war with the United States died on May 19, 2017 in the town of Fryazino, Moscow region, in the 78th birthday - this information was confirmed by his son.

“So, I confirm, he died in the grass,” “Zirka” quotes Dmitry.

Previously, information about the death of the legendary military man was published by foreign serpents. His German acquaintance Karl Schumacher telephoned others on the 7th of Wednesday to greet him on his birthday, and learned that Petrov had passed away. He published an obituary from his brother, after which on the 14th of Wednesday an article on the riddle about the Radyansky officer was published in regional German publications.

In 2016, the Petrov family in an interview with the KP.Ru website learned about those that happened on the 26th of June 1983.

“About 0.15 at the command post of the missile attack warning system (MSRN) at the secret part of Serpukhov-15, the computer shows: a ballistic missile was fired from US territory. Meta - SRSR.

The machine shows that the product is reliable. The siren is rehearsing. Great red letters are burning on top: Start. Come on out, the rocket has definitely gone off. I marveled at my fighting spirit. If you want to get stuck in your place, they turn on me. It was necessary to recheck everything. It couldn’t be like that, but it’s really a missile with warheads...”, the Fahivet said.

In his words, the first thing that seemed unreliable to Petrov was why the missiles, which would have to come from different bases for this kind of attack, came from one point.

“For a bunch of khvilins - a jingle with an orderly link. I raise my ears and tell Chergovoy: “I see you with terrible information.” He briefly confirmed: “I understand.” And then the system roared again. Another rocket went off. And then we will increase the three times more. The text "Start" changed to "Rocket Attack". If they call from visual contact, nothing matters. Over-horizontal radar is still nothing,” says a senior officer.

In his discussion with Gazeta.Ru, Petrov explained how, in addition to logical thinking, there is also intuition.

“I used to be an algorithmist. I started all the programs and knew them a lot better on the computer. The computer cannot be reasonable for the people who created it.

Even the computer determines everything mathematically, but in the depths of people’s souls it is still not understood. І in the change of non-peredbachuvan vidchuttya tezh bulo. That’s why I allowed myself not to believe the system, because I’m a human being, not a computer,” he said.

Never before did the State Commission call Petrov from whom he had filed the combat journal.

Why should I remember that there is a microphone in one hand and a telephone handset in the other, to confirm? And then it was impossible to write - it was an addition, a criminal act. Then I had a really bad time. The shortcomings have begun to appear, and those who want to know the shortcomings will definitely know them. Colonel General Yuri Votintsev then ruled against me, and then, 10 years later, he got out of the press (1993, - “Gazeta.Ru”),” he became known as a senior military man.

Further investigation revealed that the reason was the illumination of the satellite’s sensors by the sunshine, which was reflected in the high-altitude gloom. Later, changes were made to the space system to allow such situations to be turned off.

On June 19, 2006, Stanislav Petrov was presented with a special award to the city of the international organization “Association of World Citizens” at the headquarters of Stanislav Petrov in New York.

There is a crystal figurine of “The hand that touches the earth’s backbone” with the inscription “People who escaped nuclear war” engraved on it.
On the 24th of 2012, Baden-Baden was awarded the prize of the Galusian German ZMI for 2011. On the 17th of 2013, Petrov became a laureate of the Dresden Prize, which is awarded for the fight against dangerous conflicts (the penny prize is €25 thousand).

In 2014, Danish director Peter Anthony made a feature-documentary film about Petrov - “The People Who Rotted the World.” The film premiered in 2014 at the Woodstock Film Festival in New York, where the film won two awards: Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative Feature and James Lyons Award for Best Editing of Narrative Feature.

Stanislav Petrov was born on June 7, 1939 near the town of Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai. Graduate of the Kiev Military Aviation Engineering School. Having given up his specialty as an analytical engineer, he worked as an operational commander at the Serpukhov-15 command post, which is located 100 km from Moscow. At that time the cold war was over. In 1984, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

The Radyansky officer who, on June 26, 1983, avoided a potential nuclear war when, through Milkov’s monitoring of the warning system about a missile attack, there was information about an attack from the side of the United States. On that day, Stanislav Petrov, the operational officer of “Serpukhov-15,” praised the decision, because there was so much to be saved for peace on Earth and how it was spared the violent conflict.

Being an analytical engineer, he arrived at the Serpukhov-15 checkpoint in Chergovaya Cherguvania and was in charge of monitoring the launch of missiles. Until the 26th spring, the country slept peacefully. On the 0th anniversary of the 15th century, the early warning system siren roared loudly, flashing the word “Start” on the banner. Behind him came: “The first rocket has launched, the reliability of the thing.” There was talk about a nuclear strike from one of the American bases. It doesn’t matter what the regulations are, no matter how much the commander might think, it’s scary to think about what was going on in his head during the upcoming militia. According to the protocol, there was a demand for information about the launch of a nuclear missile by the enemy.

There is no confirmation of the visual channel and the analytical mind of the officer who has begun to process the version of the computer system. Having built more than one car myself, I realized that anything is possible, regardless of 30 years of verification. You are informed that the system reset is turned off, otherwise you should not believe the logic of launching one rocket. And at his own peril, he raises his voice to inform his superiors what is worth more: “Milk’s information.” Regardless of instructions, the officer assumes responsibility. From that hour, for the whole world, Stanislav Petrov is a man who escaped the world war.

Today, the lieutenant colonel from the representative, who lives in the suburban town of Fryazino, will be provided with plenty of food, one of which is always about those who believe in the decision of the authorities and when they understand that the worst thing is ass Stanislav Petrov says honestly: “The chances were fifty-fifty.” The most serious test is a complete repetition of the early warning signal, which notifies about the launch of a black rocket. There were five of them. Ale Vin carefully checked the data from the side of the visual channel, and the radars could not detect the thermal disturbance. Never before has the world been so close to catastrophe as in 1983. These terrible nights showed how important human officials are: one wrong decision and everything can turn into a pill.

In just 23 weeks, the lieutenant colonel was able to clearly see the confirmation of the correctness of the decision. Today one meal torment myself: “What happened, as if those nights, without replacing his partner, who fell ill, and in his place appeared not an engineer, but a military commander, which is the sound of the instructions ii? The Frenchmen began to carry out commissions at the command post. In about an hour, the reason for the poor performance of the early warning system sensors will be found: the optics reacted to the dark light, which appears as darkness. A large number of people, including distinguished academicians, disrupted the computer system.

Know that Stanislav Petrov did the right thing and revealed heroism, then, rechristen the work of a whole team of the brightest minds of the country, who are demanding punishment for the obscure work. They also gave the officer a hard time, and then changed their mind. The lieutenant colonel had the opportunity to confess to the commander of the PPO Yuri Votintsev for failing to fill out his combat journal. In about an hour you will be able to join the army that has submitted to the delegation.

After spending many months in hospitals, they settled in a small apartment near the Moscow region Fryazino, having picked up the phone without a trace. The decision was made with great importance, but the main reason was the illness of the squad, as through a number of fates they left life, depriving them of their son and daughter. This was an important period in the life of a great officer, who until the end realized what self-worth is.

In the nineties, the great commander of anti-missile and anti-space defense, Yuri Votintsev, had an attack on the Serpukhiv-15 command post, there were declassifications and public disclosures, which created Lieutenant Colonel Petrov as a well-known person not only in his homeland. i, and i behind the cordon. The situation itself, for which soldiers in the Radyansky Union did not believe the system, falling into the further development of the idea, shocked the outgoing world.

The Association of World Citizens under the United Nations praised the decision to honor the hero. In 2006, the city of Stanislav Evgrafovich Petrov was awarded a crystal statue: “The people who escaped the nuclear war.” In 2012, several German media outlets received my prize, and two years later the organizing committee at Dresden awarded 25 thousand euros for stopping the violent conflict.

At the hour of the awarding of the first award, the Americans began to initiate the creation of a documentary-mysterious film about a civilian officer. Stanislav Petrov himself played the leading role. The process stretched over a long period of time through the marriage of children. The picture made headlines in 2014, causing mixed reactions in the country. In Russia, the documentary film will be released in 2018.

The 2014 film has a starry eye on Hollywood - Kevin Costner, who meets the main character and takes over his part, which puts him in front of a large group, as he can’t leave anyone alone. He recognized that it is only the ones who are the best and the strongest, but the real heroes - people like Lieutenant Colonel Petrov, who made a decision that impacted the lives of every person in this world. By choosing to notify the system about the attack before launching missiles in the US, he saved the lives of many people who were now tied to these decisions.

On the evening of 26 June 1983, the world was very close to a nuclear disaster, and the professionalism of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov saved the lives of most of the Earth's population.

On the threshold of the Apocalypse

The beginning of the 80s of the last century became the most unsafe hour after the Caribbean crisis of 1962. The confrontation between the Radyansky Union and the United States has reached its climax, and the American president Ronald Reagan having dubbed the USSR “the evil empire”, and vowed to fight it with all available means.

The Americans responded to the introduction of the Radyan troops to Afghanistan with economic sanctions, boycotting the summer Moscow Olympics at the same time, and began to enforce the missile attack on the cordons of the USSR. At the same time, the Radical Church was determined to force its athletes to Los Angeles for the 1984 Summer Olympics, and the PPO was actively preparing for the possibility of a possible nuclear strike.

On June 1, 1983, a Korean Boeing was shot down over Sakhalin by the Radyansky soldiers, as a result of which all 269 people on board died.

It only becomes clear that the autopilot was incorrectly operating on the flight, and the airliner entered the windy expanse of Radyansk completely unsteadily for two days. And then everyone was watching the Americans as they watched the evidence, which moment would be absolutely irresistible.

The “Oko” system has not been verified until the end

The Moscow Region Celestial Monitoring Center Serpukhiv-15 (100 km from the capital) is actually located behind the territory of the United States and other NATO countries. Numerous Radian spy satellites regularly transmitted information about American launchers located on the entrance and exit coasts of the United States, recording all missile launches without guilt.

The soldiers were assisted by a 30-meter locator and a giant M-10 computer, which instantly processed satellite information. As a matter of fact, the space system of the early Oko missile advance was respected, adopted for commissioning in 1982.

It made it possible to fix the openings of the launch silo hatches, and at launch it indicated the trajectory of the missiles and allowed them to determine the target taken by the Americans.

For the sake of the military, an American missile to Moscow and other targets in the European part of the USSR takes at least 40 miles to fly. An hour completely sufficient to launch a nuclear strike.

Missile strike or damaged system?

On the 26th of April 1983, more than 100 military personnel joined the Center, representing all kinds of workers for their work. It was the responsibility of the 44-Rich Operational Lieutenant Colonel to coordinate their actions and make appropriate decisions. Stanislav Petrov.

The ceremony took place calmly, and the majestic radar picked up signals from the satellite “Cosmos-1382”, which flew over the earth at an altitude of 38 thousand kilometers. And at about 00.15 a siren sounded deafeningly, signaling the launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead from the US exit point.

The officer contacted the command post of the warning system about the missile attack, and they confirmed that the same signal had been received. You were no longer able to transmit the information to the authorities, and within a dozen minutes our missiles could launch from the territory of the USSR near the United States.

The lieutenant colonel, having shown respect for those soldiers of the Terminov service, who may be following the movements of the missile, promised not to shoot. Pomilkov's anxiety? Signals are sounding for another, third and fourth launches, but the missiles are not visible again. And then Petrov decided to notify the command about the failure of the warning system, asking not to launch a further missile attack.

Having put the power of life on the line

This is already a lie to the commanders of the anti-missile and anti-space defense forces of the SRSR, who urgently arrived at the Center. Yuri Votintsev press the lieutenant colonel's hand, commending him for his sweetness and high professionalism. And that night, Petrov simply put his career and life on the line, and even if he was pardoned, he inevitably faced a tribunal and the death penalty was guaranteed.

The commission that arrived on the scene quickly established the cause of the failure, which was associated with the lack of equipment of the spacecraft at that time and errors in the computer program.

The early missile warning system “Oko”, which hardly provoked a nuclear war, was “brought to the end” by two more years, and Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was quietly “kicked off” at the end of 1984. It's not a big deal. And the story itself was kept secret until 1991, until Yuri Votintsev revealed it to one of his own accord.

The unforgettable hero of our time

The role of Stanislav Petrov in the Third World War became more clear later. In September 2006, the official officer was asked to go to New York, where the crystal statue “The Hand That Trims the Earth’s Kul” was removed from the UN headquarters. The engraver wrote on it: “People who escaped nuclear war.”

In 2012, Stanislav Petrov became a laureate of the German ZMI Prize, and for the same year he was awarded the prestigious Dresden Prize for defeating dangerous conflicts.

At the end of life, people in our country began to guess about him, and in 2014 a documentary film “The People Who Rotted the World” was made.

Vin died quietly on May 19, 2017 near Fryazino near Moscow. Stanislav єvgratovich, not loved to be praised, we didn’t get healthy, I have not healthy, they live the commission of the Radyanskoy Office, Yaki Zupinovy ​​of the third, the third zberig milioni Lyudskii Zhittiv.

Just before the 26th of Wednesday, around the hour of Cherguvan Petrov, an alarm signal sounded - the computer informed about the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from an American military base. At the end of the day, no more than 15 coins were lost, and the decision to inform the region’s government needed to be praised immensely.

At the peak of the Cold War

Stanislav Evgrafovich Petrov was born on the 7th spring of 1939 near Vladivostot. Three generations of people in his family earned their military careers, and the young men followed their steps. He entered the Kiev Higher Radio Engineering School, and in 1972 he left for service at the command post of Serpukhiv-15, 100 kilometers from Moscow. The lieutenant colonel's duties include monitoring the proper functioning of satellites in the missile attack warning system.

Until the spring of 1983, the streets of Moscow and Washington were extremely tense. The American press regularly published materials about potential threats from the side of the evil empire, and the Radian press did the same. On the 1st spring of 1983, 21 years after the Caribbean crisis, a Korean Boeing 747 was shot down over Sakhalin. Ronald Reagan called it “an evil against humanity that will never be forgotten” and “an act of barbarity.” There were 23 crew members and 246 passengers on board the liner. "Boeing" was delighted with the course of 500 kilometers and the increase in the expanse of the Radyansky Union. Let's beat up the Su-15.

"I'm just shying away from my job"

Today, on the 26th of April, Stanislav Petrov is not guilty of being on the job - he was replacing a former service comrade at work. The alarm sounded immediately: the satellite transmitted information about the launch of several missiles from military bases near the United States. “It was all out of the blue. Zero years, fifteen years on the electronic year. The siren starts blaring and the “Start!” banner goes down. great crooked-red writers... I stood up from behind the console, and my heart sank so much. I’m amazed that people have been ruined. The operators turned their heads, huddled in their places, and continued to look at me. “I was angry, apparently,” Petrov confessed in an interview with Channel Five. Panic set in among those present, and they were ordered to take up their posts.

The lieutenant colonel suspected the pardon, although he wanted it to be carried out after the alarm signal and the verification spoke of a new correctness. The instruction is responsible for informing about those that are being prepared, and for 28 minutes after the signal is released, cancel the order to start from the signal. Having killed Ale Petrov, 30 levels of verification of the functionality of the notification system were carried out regardless of how they functioned. As it was explained later, the Radian sensors responded to the light that was rising from the gloom.

Stanislav Petrov. (globallookpress.com)

The news about the incident on June 26 was declassified in 1993. In an interview, Stanislav Petrov repeatedly said that he did not consider himself a hero - Viyskovy simply finished his job. Over the years, most European writers have written about him, and a number of documentaries have been made.

After the exposition, Petrov settled near Moscow. In 2013, the lieutenant colonel became a laureate of the Dresden Prize, which is awarded for defying dangerous conflicts. Vіn died in the spring of 2017, prote ZMI reported about the whole year in the spring.

In 1983, a new round of the “Cold War” arrived, connected with the actions of US President Ronald Reagan, who called the Radyansky Union an evil empire. In the spring, American aviation began to carry out a thorough bombing of the territory of the Kuril Islands, and fuel is added to the fire, which was shot down on June 1, 1983 by the Radyansky vinishuvach, the Korean Boeing. It was then that Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov decided to start a nuclear war.

Center for monitoring the heavenly bodies

100 kilometers from Moscow there was a Center for Monitoring the Celestial Bodies, which was actually the command post “Serpukhiv-15”, where information was received and processed, separated from the current system of early cosmic advance "Eye." When the signal about the missile attack was received from the point, a message was sent to the security service of the SRSR, which made decisions about the action at the front.

At the end of the 26th to 27th spring of 1984, about 0.15 weeks ago, the missile attack warning system displayed on the computer a notification that a ballistic missile had been fired from the US territory, as the USSR may have. At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was the commander's command post.

Nuclear attack

The lieutenant colonel himself wrote about this night: “The siren is rehearsing as if she’s stunned. At the top of the wall, great letters are burning: “START.” Come on out, the rocket has definitely gone off. I marveled at my fighting spirit. If you want to get stuck in your place, they turn on me. Raising his voice, ordering him to occupy his plantings. It was necessary to recheck everything. It couldn’t be like that, but it’s really a missile with warheads...”

The "Eye" monitored the launch as the missile exited the silo. For instructions, you only need to read the information provided by the computer and notify the command about the crisis situation. Stanislav Yevgrafovich doubted and could not understand why the attack was destroyed by only one missile.

Just before the apocalypse

In an interview with correspondents, the lieutenant colonel said: “All the data from our computer is duplicated by the authorities. And what a surprise: why is there no confirmation from me? For a few khvilins - a call on the rank. I raise my ears and tell Chergovoy: “I see you with terrible information.”

After Petrov hung up the phone, the siren blared again and the system announced the launch of another rocket by the SRSR. After walking three miles to the command post, we found information about three more launches and the word “START” changed to “MISSILE ATTACK.”

For praise decision Stanislav Petrov Mav 10-15 hvilin. While Chergova ran from the nuclear valise to the camp of the SRSR Andropov, the officer analyzed the situation. Fahivtsi, who made visual contact with the missiles, confirmed that there was nothing to fire; radar also confirmed the presence of a nuclear threat in the sky. The lieutenant colonel recognized his responsibility and conveyed to the center that the computer system had failed.

During the course of the investigation, it became clear that the cause of the malfunction was the illumination of the satellite sensors by solar light, which rose above the altitude gloom.

After the crisis

Stanislav Petrov was not given the order of honor, and after a terrorist attack through the camp of the health squad, Lieutenant Colonel Viyshov was at the headquarters. The superiors presented the officer with a complaint about the failure to fill out the combat journal. At this point, it is believed that it was physically impossible for Petrov to create a record at the time of the attack, and it was criminal to make an additional record after it was blocked.

The character of the hero became known in 1993, and Petrov’s then-commander General Votintsev named him. For the cause of peace, the lieutenant colonel in 2013 received the Dresden Prize of 25 thousand euros for saving the war. Previously, Petrov’s merit was recognized by the “Association of World Citizens”, which gave him a statue with the inscription “People who escaped nuclear war.”

Stanislav Petrov died on May 19, 2017 at the age of 77 at his small apartment near the town of Fryazino near Moscow. In the rest of the interview, the lieutenant colonel said that he once rejected a request for 500 dollars, which American actor Kevin Costner had saved for a token.