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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.
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Vladimir Khatuntsev
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He was head of the central Soviet news agency Telegraphic Agency of the USSR in 1978-1979. 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 Telegraphic Agency of the USSR 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 Telegraphic Agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He subsequently worked as Deputy Chief Editor of the mass-circulation national newspaper Labor (Russian: Труд), and, on July 11, 1978, became General Director of Telegraphic Agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Khatuntsev died on April 19, 1979. He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
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Soviet Union