How it was №1666 01/30/2001 (2001)

The Caribbean campaign of Soviet submarines, 1962.

October 1962 year.

The USSR deploys a missile base in Cuba.

In response, the US announced the beginning of the sea blockade of the island.

The world is on the threshold of the Third World War.

The American president calls on the Soviet leadership and Prime Minister Khrushchev to "renounce actions that threaten peace on Earth." On October 27, the press reported on the readiness of the USSR to remove all weapons from Cuba, which the US considers to be offensive.

These facts from the history of the Caribbean crisis are known to every schoolboy.

But few know about Operation Anadyr - the Soviet submarine march to the shores of the Island of Freedom in the period from 22 to 26 October 1962 remained behind the scenes.

Details of the march are shared by direct participants, commanders of submarines Nikolai Shumkov, Vitaly Agafonov, Rurik Ketov and Alexei Dubivko.

The program includes a chronicle of different years: DF Kennedy, NS Khrushchev, American and Soviet troops on land and at sea, FAKastro Rus in Cuba and on the May Day parade in Severomorsk.