Enver Mamedov

Enver Nazim oglu Mammadov (Azerbaijani: Ənvər Nazim oğlu Məmmədov; born 15 August 1923 in Baku, Azerbaijan), is a former 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 (Russian: Энвер Назимович Мамедов), or just Enver Mamedov.

Enver Mammadov's mother's maiden name was Ivanov, and he occasionally used it as his pen name during his media career.

After graduating from high school in Baku, Azerbaijan with the "excellent" grades in all subjects (including the Azerbaijani and German languages), in June 1941, Enver Mammadov 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, Mammadov 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 Mammadov 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, Mammadov participated in the Nuremberg Trials, as one of the handlers of the Soviet prosecutors' star witness, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.

Since ca. 1950, and for the rest of his life, Mammadov was working in Soviet mass media. In 1950–56 he was one of the officials in charge of the Soviet radio broadcasting to the UK, US, and Latin America.

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