Enver Mamedov

Enver Mamedov

Enver Nazimovich Mamedov ( _ru. Энвер Назимович Мамедов; Azeri: "Ənvər Məmmədov"; born 15 August 1923 in Baku, Azerbaijan), is a former Soviet diplomat and a mass media manager.

Early life

After graduating from high school in Baku, Azerbaijan with the "excellent" grades in all subjects (including Azeri and German languages), [ [http://www.tvmuseum.ru/photo.asp?a_no=1879&menu=0 Mamedov's high school graduation certificate] , linked from [http://www.tvmuseum.ru/catalog.asp?ob_no=6004 Museum of Radio and Television] , Mamedov's photo gallery. ru icon] , Enver Mamedov joined a military school, hoping to become a fighter pilot. After Hitler's invasion of the USSR in 1941, Enver asked to be sent to the front line, but was instead sent to be trained as a military translator. [http://broadcasting.ru/articles2/Litsa/ya_ne_sovershal_podvig "Я не совершал больших подвигов"] ("I did no great feats"), interview with Enver Nazimovich Mamedov. "Broadcasting. Телевидение и радиовещание", No. 4, 2005 ru icon] After seeing some action first as a Sr. Sergeant, later as a Sr. Lieutenant, he was sent to work with the USSR Foreign Ministry, where he was posted to Soviet embassy in Italy as the press secretary. [http://www.tvmuseum.ru/catalog.asp?ob_no=6004 Museum of Radio and Television] ru icon]

After the end of the war, Mamedov participated in Nuremberg Trial, as one of the handlers of the Soviet prosecutors' star witness, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.

The nation's publicist

Since no later than 1950, and for the rest of his life, Mamedov was working in Soviet mass media. In 1950-56 he was in charge of the Soviet radio broadcasting to the UK, USA, and Latin America.

In the late 1950s, Mamedov edited the "USSR" magazine: a Soviet English-language journal for the US audience - the Soviet counterpart of the "Amerika" magazine, - and visited the USA on a number of public relations missions.

Enver Mamedov was appointed the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television in 1962, and occupied this post from the late days of Khrushchev administration and throughout the Brezhnev era. Together with Alexander Yakovlev, he is credited with the creation in August 1964 of Radio Mayak, a national news and music radio broadcasting channel meant to compete with the Western radio stations broadcasting to Russia. [ [http://old.radiomayak.ru/birthday/04/05/19/29726.html Летопись "Маяка": Прорыв] (The Mayak Chronicles: The Breakthrough) ru icon] From 1970 to 1985 he was directly in charge of Soviet television.

Circa 2006, Enver Mamedov was an adviser to the director general of RIA Novosti.

Enver Mamedov's son, Georgiy Enverovich Mamedov, is a Russian diplomat, currently serving as Russia's ambassador in Canada.

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