Joe Adamov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian journalist
Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1920
Place of Birth: Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
Date of Death: 18-Dec-2005
Profession: journalist
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Joe Adamov
- Joe Adamov, Russian: ????? ?????? (Yosif Adamov), (7 January 1920 – 18 December 2005) was a journalist and presenter on Radio Moscow and its successor, the Voice of Russia, for over sixty years.
- Of Armenian descent, he was born in Batumi, Georgia.
- As a child, he lived with his family in England and attended British schools.
- Later, in the 1930s, he attended a special school for American expats in Moscow where he acquired familiarity with Americans.
- He was a graduate of Moscow State Pedagogical University.An expert English-speaker who spoke with a neutral American accent, Adamov joined Radio Moscow as an announcer at the foreign language service of Radio Moscow in 1942.
- He lived in Moscow during most of his career. Among English-speaking listeners, he is best known as the presenter of the programme Moscow Mailbag on Radio Moscow's North American shortwave broadcasts.
- The program answered questions from listeners on all aspects of Soviet life and the USSR's policies.
- At its height, Moscow Mailbag listeners sent Adamov thousands of letters yearly.
- In his capacity as a Radio Moscow journalist and presenter of Moscow Mailbag, Adamov conducted interviews with many western politicians and journalists, including Dwight D.
- Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Walter Cronkite and Larry King. During the Cold War, Adamov's broadcasts, like all other Radio Moscow output, were carefully studied by Western governments, a fact of which the Soviet authorities were well aware.
- Joe Adamov presented Moscow Mailbag from 1957 until shortly before his death, when ill-health forced him to relinquish the role permanently.
- The program remains on the air with different presenters. Joe Adamov was also the official Soviet translator at the trial of Gary Powers, shot down in a U-2 spy plane in 1960. The signature poem of Moscow Mailbag was: Adamov's death was reported on Voice of Russia's English-language news bulletins on December 21, 2005, although neither these bulletins nor the obituary on their website gave an exact date of death.
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