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Stanislav Petrov, Lt. Colonel in Soviet Air Defence Forces (born 1939)

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Stanislav Petrov

Soviet Air Defence Forces officer (1939–2017)

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. On 26 September 1983, three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the…
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Soviet Air Defence Forces

Air defense branch of the Soviet Armed Forces

The Soviet Air Defence Forces was the air defence branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.
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May 19

Day of the year

May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 226 days remain until the end of the year.
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