How it was №1 30.01.2001 (2001)

Video chronicle: Speech by US President John F. Kennedy.

In his address to the nation, he announced the deployment of Soviet military missiles in Cuba.

American reconnaissance aircraft.

Map of the area.

Soviet warships.

Operators at the telephone exchange - the president's line.

Khrushchev's response.

Anastas Mikoyan comes out to the press, communicates with the leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro.

Map of the USSR (signature Russia), surrounded by military bases of belligerent states.

Soviet ships remove missiles from Cuba.

In accordance with the secret operation "Anadyr", Soviet submarines were sent to Liberty Island, carrying nuclear warheads.

Nikolai Shumkov tells how his submarine, due to technical problems, was forced to surface and literally ran into American aircraft.

Video chronicle: Khrushchev at a USSR naval base.

Naval exercises.

Submarine submersion.

Reconnaissance of the area from the submarine through the periscope.

Vitaly Agafonov reconstructs the events of 1962. He talks about the development and execution of the operation, about maintaining strict secrecy.

According to Rurik Ketov, the team was extremely surprised when nuclear weapons were loaded on board the submarine.

Vice-Admiral Anatoly Rassokho instructed in what cases they could be used.

Alexey Dubivko tells about an emergency that occurred on his submarine, when during a strong storm one of the crew members had to have an operation for appendicitis.

The submarine crews faced intense, exhausting heat after a cold storm in the Atlantic.

The temperature inside the submarines reached 65 degrees.

Nikolay Shumkov tells how Soviet submarines managed to pass through the coastal defense system created by the American services called "Caesar".

Vitaly Agafonov's submarine was surrounded and fired upon by American naval forces.

But the crew managed to escape the encirclement by using tactical ingenuity.

Alexey Dubivko tells how, being almost at the end of their route, they received an order from the center to stop advancing.

Video chronicle: Khrushchev.

Cuba - Cuban military, Fidel Castro speaking.

Press sales - a newsstand.

John Kennedy with his wife.

The submarine passes on the water surface.

The order to cancel the operation to the submarines sent to the shores of Cuba was never received.

According to Alexey Dubivko, one of the American destroyers fired a torpedo at the submarine, which missed the target by one and a half meters.

These facts were revealed later, when the crew returned home.

The participants recall the cunning of the B-59 submarine commander Valentin Savitsky, who used ingenuity and escaped the tight ring of encirclement in which he was taken by US destroyers.

Upon returning to their home dock, the central headquarters tried to deny the mistakes they had made.

The submarine commanders were accused of violating the regulations.

They were accused of disobeying orders and were reproached for the fact that the Soviet submarine commanders did not use nuclear weapons - they did not give the order to open fire on the American naval forces.

The Minister of Defense of the USSR Andrei Grechko remained unaware until the last moment that diesel, not nuclear submarines, were sent to the shores of Cuba.

Fidel Castro, who arrived in Severomorsk, was shown a submarine that Cuba did not have, but was more modern and powerful.

Video chronicle: Fidel Castro meets with sailors in Severomorsk.