Background
He was born October 23, 1919 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to Vsyevolod Dimitrievich and Anastasia Alexandrovna (Shcheglova) Votintsev, his father reportedly killed by English and/or American agents.
He was born October 23, 1919 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to Vsyevolod Dimitrievich and Anastasia Alexandrovna (Shcheglova) Votintsev, his father reportedly killed by English and/or American agents.
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.
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. Votintsev was a promoted and repeatedly decorated artillery officer throughout World World War World War II Toward 1953 he was lending his experience to North Korean and Chinese forces during the Korean War. He went on to serve in antiaircraft and space defense, becoming an artillery Major General in 1958 and transferring to Turkmenistan, working with southern border defense to suppress American U-2 surveillance flights.
He became a lieutenant general in 1963 and a Turkmen delegate to the 22nd and 23rd Communist Party of the Soviet Union Party Congresses.
After retirement he was the veteran"s organization chair for the capital"s Oktyabrskiy region and was chosen as a delegate to the 1990 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Votintsev resided in Moscow.