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Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov () was a Soviet naval officer. On October 27 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of 11 United States Navy destroyers headed by the aircraft carrier USS Randolph entrapped a nuclear-armed Soviet Foxtrot class submarine B-59 near Cuba and started dropping depth charges.
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