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Nikolai Mesyatsev
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev (Russian: Николай Николаевич Месяцев) (July 3, 1920, Volsk, Saratov Governorate - September 3, 2011, Moscow) was a Soviet politician and statesman, chairman of the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Soviet Union from 1964-1970. From 1970-1972, he served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union to Australia. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1941-1972 and 1984-1991. Being member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was a candidate (alternate) member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1966-1971 as well as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1970.
He was born into a large working-class family in Volsk, Saratov Governorate. His father was Nikolai Andreevich Mesyatsev (1872-1926), and his mother Anna Ivanovna Mesyatseva (1884-1943).
In 1926, the family moved to Moscow. In 1937, after finishing ten years of school, he entered the Moscow Law Institute. From the 3rd year, he transferred to the naval faculty of the Military Law Academy of the Red Army, which he graduated in September 1941.
In 1941-1945, he worked first in the 3rd Directorate of the People's Commissariat of the Navy of the Soviet Union, then in the Directorate of Special Departments of the NKVD and in the SMERSH Counterintelligence Department of the 5th Guards Tank Army: junior investigator, investigator, head of the investigative department. In 1945-1946, he worked in the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence "SMERSH".
In 1946-1947, first an instructor, then a responsible organizer of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In 1948-1950, the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Moldavian SSR. He recalled that Leonid Brezhnev, then the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova, offered him to head the Komsomol of the republic, but Mesyatsev refused. In 1950-1952, he was deputy head of the organizational department of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
In 1953, he was transferred to the state security agencies in order to conduct an audit of the investigation into the Viktor Abakumov case and the Doctors' plot. He was appointed assistant to the head of the investigative unit.
From 1952 to 1955 he studied at the postgraduate program of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU with the title candidate of legal sciences.
In 1955 he was the Head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and in 1955-1959 he served as secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.
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Nikolai Mesyatsev
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev (Russian: Николай Николаевич Месяцев) (July 3, 1920, Volsk, Saratov Governorate - September 3, 2011, Moscow) was a Soviet politician and statesman, chairman of the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Soviet Union from 1964-1970. From 1970-1972, he served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union to Australia. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1941-1972 and 1984-1991. Being member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was a candidate (alternate) member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1966-1971 as well as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1970.
He was born into a large working-class family in Volsk, Saratov Governorate. His father was Nikolai Andreevich Mesyatsev (1872-1926), and his mother Anna Ivanovna Mesyatseva (1884-1943).
In 1926, the family moved to Moscow. In 1937, after finishing ten years of school, he entered the Moscow Law Institute. From the 3rd year, he transferred to the naval faculty of the Military Law Academy of the Red Army, which he graduated in September 1941.
In 1941-1945, he worked first in the 3rd Directorate of the People's Commissariat of the Navy of the Soviet Union, then in the Directorate of Special Departments of the NKVD and in the SMERSH Counterintelligence Department of the 5th Guards Tank Army: junior investigator, investigator, head of the investigative department. In 1945-1946, he worked in the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence "SMERSH".
In 1946-1947, first an instructor, then a responsible organizer of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In 1948-1950, the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Moldavian SSR. He recalled that Leonid Brezhnev, then the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova, offered him to head the Komsomol of the republic, but Mesyatsev refused. In 1950-1952, he was deputy head of the organizational department of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
In 1953, he was transferred to the state security agencies in order to conduct an audit of the investigation into the Viktor Abakumov case and the Doctors' plot. He was appointed assistant to the head of the investigative unit.
From 1952 to 1955 he studied at the postgraduate program of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU with the title candidate of legal sciences.
In 1955 he was the Head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and in 1955-1959 he served as secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.