Vladimir Khatuntsev

Vladimir Petrovich Khatuntsev (Владимир Петрович Хатунцев) (1916, Moscow – April 19, 1979, Moscow) was a Soviet journalist and news executive. He was head of the central Soviet news agency TASS in 1978–79.

Khatuntsev was graduated from Pokrovsky Technical School, then studied at the All-Union Communist Institute of Journalism and the History Department of Moscow State University.

Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, while Khatuntsev was a student at Moscow State University, he joined a militia battalion of the Presnensky District of Moscow. He then worked as a production manager in the defense industry.

In 1946, Khatuntsev joined TASS as a reporter handling foreign news, then became senior editor of the International News Radio division and a foreign correspondent in Finland. In 1960 he became Deputy General Director of TASS. He subsequently worked as Deputy Chief Editor of the mass-circulation national newspaper Labor (Труд), and, on July 11, 1978, became General Director of TASS.

Khatuntsev died on April 19, 1979. He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

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