As soon as the influence of Soviet ideology on people ended, many Soviet minds began to reveal the secrets of the regime, using journalism. The Russian journalist Nikolai Dolgopolov did not stand aside.
Biography
Dolgopolov Nikolai Mikhailovich was born in the USSR in 1949. He graduated from Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow and graduate school in the UK.
Currently, Nikolai Dolgopolov belongs to the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation and has membership in the Union of Writers and Writing Organizations. He entered journalism in the early 1970s, worked for a long time in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, eventually becoming the first deputy chief editor, then changed the publication to Trud newspaper, where he was registered as a secretary. Since 2007, Nikolai Dolgopolov has been deputy chief editor of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The journalist is actively interested in the topic of figure skating: he is a member of the presidium of the Figure Skating Federation in Russia and is the organizer of a club of journalists writing about this sport.
Dolgopolov Nikolai Mikhailovich has diplomas and awards from the International Sports Committees in his list. In the late 1990s, he was the first Russian journalist to be invited to work at the International Olympic Academy. He repeatedly received awards in the category "Best Sports Journalist", as he often worked at the Olympic Games, world sporting events, and participated in competitions.
Books written by Dolgopolov
Also Nikolai Mikhailovich Dolgopolov is a writer well-known in some circles. He wrote about 11 books. Consider a list of the most famous works of the author.
Vartanyan
In this book, Nikolai Dolgopolov writes about the first illegal intelligence officer of the USSR - Gevork Andreyevich Vartanyan, who died today, in 2012. Vartanyan received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and began his activity as a scout from the age of 16.
During the Second World War he worked in Iran, participating in the identification of German agents. During the Tehran conference, Hitler Germany planned an assassination attempt on the leaders of the "Big Three". But the group in which Vartanyan was a member disrupted the plan. This operation was recognized as the most secret, and some "boy" with his group, who use their bicycles, thwarted it and arrested about 400 agents.
Vartanyan was also able to declassify our allies - the British, who also sent their spies to the USSR. Gevork Andreyevich got into confidence in them and brought them to clean water.
Work in Iran was not only fruitful, but literally hurt, Vartanyan was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by the Iranian side. But he soon got married, everything was just as secret, even the wedding had to be celebrated several times in different countries. From that moment, the spouses began their common intelligence activities, they were soon sent abroad to fulfill the tasks of the KGB of the USSR, in total the couple served the special body for 35 years, almost nothing is known about these years, everything was kept secret.
For this work, Gevork and his wife were awarded the main award of their life. In 1986, the couple returned to the country, and in 2000 they were able to declassify his name. But Vartanyan continued to work as an adviser to the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. All these secrets are told in his book by Nikolai Dolgopolov.
Legendary scouts
Nikolai Dolgopolov devoted this book to the most famous scouts of the Soviet era, who are known not only in our country, but also abroad. Each of these people during the Great Patriotic War fought against Nazi Germany and its political regime, identified secret agents operating within our country, left their family and homeland, working in other countries. The book was prepared by Nikolai Dolgopolov, who can be called a historian of intelligence, in 2015, in the year when the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia turned 95 years old.
Thus, throughout his life Dolgopolov studied the intelligence activities of the USSR and Russia and achieved such successes that he became the first Russian publicist to collect complete information about this topic. Nikolai Mikhailovich Dolgopolov, whose books are read not only in our country, but also in the world, is a writer who was one of the first to find the truth in the activities of the secret service.