Prevented nuclear war from the USA, died on May 19, 2017 in the city of Fryazino, Moscow Region, at the age of 78 - this information was confirmed by his son.
“Yes, I confirm, he died back in May,” Zvezda quotes Dmitry.
Earlier, reports of the death of the legendary military man were published by foreign media. His German acquaintance Karl Schumacher called a friend on September 7 to congratulate him on his birthday and found out that Petrov had passed away. He published an obituary on his blog, after which on September 14 an article in memory of the Soviet officer was published by a regional German publication.
In 2016, Petrov, in an interview with the KP.Ru website, spoke about what happened on September 26, 1983.
"At 0.15 on command post missile attack warning system (MAWS) in the secret part of Serpukhov-15, the computer reports: a ballistic missile was fired from US territory. The target is the USSR.
The machine shows that the reliability is the highest. The siren is screaming. At the top there are big red letters: “Start”. This means the rocket definitely went off. I looked down at my crew. Some even jumped up from their seats and turned to look at me. I had to check everything. It couldn’t be that this is actually a missile with warheads…” the specialist pointed out.
According to him, the first thing that seemed unreliable to Petrov was why the missiles, which in such an attack should come from different bases, came from one point.
“In a couple of minutes there will be a call via government communications. I pick up the phone and report to the person on duty: “I’m giving you false information.” He answered briefly: “Got it.” And then the system roared again. The second rocket went off. And then within three minutes three more times. The inscription “Start” changed to “Missile attack”. But visual contact specialists report that we see nothing. Over-horizontal radar is also nothing,” says the former officer.
In a conversation with Gazeta.Ru, Petrov explained that in addition to logical thinking He was also guided by intuition.
“I was an algorithmist. I studied all the programs and knew them much better than a computer. The computer can never be smarter than a person who created it.
After all, a computer solves everything mathematically, but a person still has something unpredictable deep down in his soul. And I had this unpredictable feeling too. That’s why I allowed myself not to trust the system, because I’m a person, not a computer,” he said.
Soon the State Commission accused Petrov of not filling out the combat log.
“What should I fill in if I have a microphone in one hand and a telephone receiver in the other to report? And then it was also impossible to write - this is an addition, a criminal offense. Then I had a very hard time. They began to look for flaws, and those who want to find a flaw will definitely find it. Colonel General Yuri Votintsev then scolded me, and then, 10 years later, he apologized in print (in 1993, Gazeta.Ru),” the former military man admitted.
A subsequent investigation determined that the cause was the satellite's sensors being illuminated by sunlight reflected from high-altitude clouds. Later, changes were made to the space system to eliminate such situations.
On January 19, 2006, in New York at the Headquarters, Stanislav Petrov was presented with a special award from the international public organization"Association of World Citizens".
It is a crystal figurine “Hand holding Earth" with the inscription "To the man who prevented nuclear war" engraved on it.
On February 24, 2012, he was awarded the German Media Prize for 2011 in Baden-Baden. On February 17, 2013, Petrov became a laureate of the Dresden Prize, awarded for the prevention of armed conflicts (the monetary value of the prize is €25 thousand).
In 2014, Danish director Peter Anthony made a feature-documentary film about Petrov, “The Man Who Saved the World.” The film premiered in October 2014 at the Woodstock Film Festival, New York, where the film received two honorable mention awards: Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative Feature and James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Narrative Feature.
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Peter died a few days after he had the attack. Three attacks in a row. Peter didn’t tell anyone that he had been sick since he was 14 years old. Only those closest knew about this. Well, the judges who saw these documents. And this did not stop one of them from passing a sentence on Peter - imprisonment for 4 years, serving the term in a general regime colony.
Then Peter had five children. Soon after that verdict was pronounced and overturned, Peter and Lida had a sixth son, Nikitka. He is now 4 years old.
The attack that took the life of Pyotr Ofitserov happened the day after Pyotr’s suspended sentence in the Kirovles case expired. He lived as a free man for one day.
Then there was an ambulance and a coma. He did not regain consciousness.
Looking at him, talking to him, you could never suspect that Petya was stressed. That all these years he lived in it, worried, and was very nervous. He never showed it. He was always calm, open, reliable. Father, husband, friend, the right vest to snuggle into, a person you can always call if anything happens. It won't let you down.
The house of Peter and Lida in the Moscow region was full of love, children and people from different worlds. Different views, different, as they say, social groups, ages, ideas about the structure of the world. Peter did not divide people into “ours” and “not ours,” and at his and Lida’s big table there was always amicable feelings. You could hear something with which you disagreed, or categorically disagree, smile and express your opinion: there were never any skirmishes there, Peter knew how to expand the boundaries of his calm, it seems, by kilometers.
About a month ago, he wrote on Facebook: “I really want our country to have a demand for justice based on respect for people.”
It would seem - such a simple phrase, who would refuse justice? But here is the whole of Peter - not just justice for you and for me, but based on respect. He even watched cartoons like that.
“I watched a cartoon about Leopold, and this is what I thought about. Mice are cat food. And here they constantly attack the predator, ignoring the danger. And I thought: what if there was a backstory? Previously, Leopold was an ordinary cat and ate everyone who was dear to these cute little mice. Then he got hooked on sedatives, became calmer, or he became allergic to mice, and that’s why he doesn’t eat them. But these little mice take revenge... they remember. In this concept, the cartoon changes color.” And a smiley face.
Peter was loved. A person, having met him, fell into his very strong, but soft - energy field, or something, and wanted to stay in it as long as possible. With him it was clear where the real was and where the husk was; in some unknown way he sharpened your inner vision and debugged your creaky mechanism of interaction with the world. I don’t know how he managed it, he hardly thought about it - it just happened that way, that’s the kind of person he is. And then there is his almost elusive accent, with accentuation of vowel sounds, but not in a drawl - not southern or northern, not Ural and not Siberian, but some very Russian, some kind of lost real Russian speech.
Photo: Evgeny Feldman / Novaya Archive I was afraid to call Lida when he died. I called his close friend Masha Eismont from Sitting Rus'. Both she and Peter are members of our Board of Trustees. Next to Masha was Svetlana Davydova, Peter’s lawyer. They were in the hospital where Peter died, next to his family. Svetlana Davydova told me something unexpected.
“When we met, we really didn’t like each other. I didn’t know him then, I tried to explain to him that there is no need to lie to the lawyer, you need to say so - yes, he stole, he cheated, help me. And he said - why do I need this crazy woman. Then they gradually began to understand each other. But he surprised me. When they asked me to testify, I told him, think about yourself, about your children, comrades-in-arms and reputation are good things, but they will not feed your family. He didn't even discuss it. He's the only one I have. Light, a kind person, I don’t have those anymore.”
And Peter recalled it this way:
“When they offered me a deal with the investigation, I told them: you’ll give me a maximum of ten, otherwise I’ll be in trouble for the rest of my life. And I plan to live a long time, why do I need this?”
He was with us until the end of his probation and one more day. One day as a free man.
Photo: Alexandra Astakhova
At the age of 43, entrepreneur Pyotr Ofitserov, who along with Alexei Navalny was convicted in the Kirovles case, died. First about this reported journalist Evgenia Albats, then the information was confirmed by the businessman’s lawyer Svetlana Davydova.
Earlier this week, on July 9, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that Ofitserov was hospitalized with a concussion and traumatic brain injury, allegedly received during a seizure. According to Albats, Ofitserov died of a stroke.
"Moskovsky Komsomolets", July 9:As MK learned, Ofitserov was taken to one of the hospitals on Sunday afternoon from his home in the settlement of Pervomaiskoye (New Moscow). He suffered a concussion and traumatic brain injury. Previously, according to doctors, the 43-year-old man could have been injured during a seizure.
Petr Ofitserov in 2009 was the founder of the Vyatka Forestry Company (VLK). Together with opposition politician Alexei Navalny, he was involved in the Kirovles case. The prosecution at the trial in 2013 argued that Kirovles was supposed to supply timber to VLK at a reduced price, and it would resell it at the market price, although it could sell its products independently and without intermediaries. The officers did not testify against Navalny during the investigation, indicating the pressure of the investigation.RBC
As Officers himself said in an interview with Esquire, he was twice offered to make a deal with the investigation and testify against Navalny, but he refused both times."Rain"
Pyotr Ofitserov was a famous economist in Russia. In 2012, he opened the project “Petr Ofitserov’s Supplier School” - a comprehensive distance learning course in technologies for working with retail chains. He also wrote a popular book about the Russian retail trade: "Supplier: organization efficient work with chain stores." Officerov also headed the consulting company Real Work Management.RTVI
In the summer of 2013, Pyotr Ofitserov was found guilty of aiding and abetting fraud in the Kirovles case (part 5 of article 33, part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code). Ofitserov was sentenced to four years in a general regime colony, suspended, and a fine of 500 thousand rubles. Navalny was found guilty of organizing theft by a group of persons on an especially large scale (part 3 of article 33, part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code).In February 2016, the European Court of Human Rights decided that during the consideration of the case of Navalny and Ofitserov, their rights to a fair trial and to punishment solely on the basis of the law were violated. After this, in November 2016, Supreme Court Russia overturned the sentence [due to which Navalny could not participate in the elections] and returned the case for a new trial.
In February 2017, Navalny and Ofitserov were again found guilty in the Kirovles case and were given the same punishment. In the fall of 2017, the Council of Europe recognized the first decision on Kirovles as a violation of Navalny’s rights and demanded that he be allowed to participate in the presidential elections.