Who was revealed as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" in memoirs by Yury Votintsev?
Yury Votintsev Colonel General Yuriy Vsyevolodich Votintsev (Russ. Юрий Всеволодович Вотинцев) was a retired commander of the Soviet Air Defense's Missile Defense Units. He is best known for the revelation in his memoirs in 1998 of the 1983 incident involving Stanislav Petrov in which the latter probably prevented an inadvertent nuclear war between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Vladimir Kokovtsov Count Vladimir Nikolaevich Kokovtsov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Коко́вцов ; 18 April [O.S. 6 April] 1853 – 29 January 1943) was a Russian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Russia from 1911–1914, during the reign of Emperor Nicholas II.