[4] 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.

[5][6] 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.

[2][6] 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 Nikita Khrushchev administration and throughout the Leonid Brezhnev era.

[7] From 1970 to 1985, he was directly in charge of Soviet television, being second in command to the Gosteleradio chief Sergey Lapin.

[6] Through him, he has a granddaughter, Tatiana Mamedova,[9] who is an artist, film costume and fashion designer living in Moscow.