Enver Mamedov

Enver Nazim oglu Mammadov (; 15 August 1923 – 7 September 2023) was a Soviet diplomat and a mass media manager. During his career, spent mostly in Russia and the West, he was primarily known under the Russianized form of his name, Enver Nazimovich Mamedov , or just Enver Mamedov.

Early life Enver Mamedov was born on 15 August 1923 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. in June 1941, Enver Mamedov joined a fighter pilot school. 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 at a GRU school. After seeing some action first as a Sr. Sergeant, later as a Sr. Lieutenant, at the Soviet Union's Caucasus Front, Mamedov was sent to work with the USSR Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, where he was posted to the Soviet embassy in Italy as the press secretary. According to Mamedov himself, he was probably selected to that position because he spoke Italian, in addition to German, English, and French.

After the end of the war, Mamedov participated in the Nuremberg trials, as one of the handlers of the Soviet prosecutors' star witness, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. From 1970 to 1985, he was directly in charge of Soviet television, being second in command to the Gosteleradio chief Sergey Lapin.

At the time of his 85th birthday in 2008, Enver Mamedov still was an adviser to the Director General of RIA Novosti.

Personal life and death Enver Mamedov's son, Georgiy Mamedov, is a Russian diplomat, who served as Russia's ambassador to Canada between 2003 and 2014. who is an artist, film costume and fashion designer living in Moscow.

Mamedov died on 7 September 2023, at the age of 100.