Enver Mamedov - The Nation's Publicist

The Nation's Publicist

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.

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

Enver Mammadov was appointed the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television in 1962, and occupied this post from the late days of Nikita Khrushchev administration and throughout the Leonid 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. 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 Mammadov still was an adviser to the Director General of RIA Novosti.