Automation let the Soviet Alfa class operate with an officer-heavy crew

Did the Soviet Alfa-class submarine really operate with only about thirty people, most of them officers or warrant officers?

The quoted reference gives Western estimates of twenty-five to forty-five crew, with a very high proportion of officers and warrant officers and few if any enlisted personnel.

The Soviet Alfa class used extensive automation and an unusually high proportion of officers and warrant officers. Western intelligence estimates quoted from a reference book range from twenty-five to forty-five crew, with few if any enlisted personnel. That range supports the possibility of a complement near thirty while leaving the exact number uncertain. A rescue sphere provided a means for the crew to escape if the submarine became disabled.