"Paul Astrian"

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Paul Astroeus was born on 17 August 1925, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father worked as a surgeon at the Greek Hospital of Alexandria.

First years
In 1926 the family moved to Cyprus, and his father was eventually appointed to the medical department of the government. As a government physician his father was subject to transfers from city to city, therefore for Elementary he went to three different schools. It started in Paphos, up to half the fourth grade, then in Kyrenia, until the end of the fifth grade and completed the sixth grade in Limassol.

School, university studies, vocational training
He completed his first and second high school at Athens College. After the war began his father did not let him return to Greece. He continued his studies at the Pancyprian Gymnasium because his father, meanwhile, transferred to Larnaca in Cyprus, where there was no Gymnasium. After six months, however, he was transferred again, this time to Varossi, where he graduated in 1943.

The war did not allow him to leave for study until his end. He studied at Liverpool University where he graduated in 1950, specializing in Electronic Engineering. After short employment in industry and in the BBC, he was hired by the colonial government to the Cyprus Radio Service (RIK) established. He arrived in Cyprus and began work on July 30, 1951.

Its role in the EECA
The service under English administration was not easy, especially when the liberation struggle of the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (EECA) began. Because he was in charge of the Pompon branch, which was repeatedly re-emerged by the EECA, the English, even though they had no evidence, suspected that he was the mastermind behind the explosions. So, instead of immediately being put into a concentration camp, he was sent to England for four months of retraining to the BBC and at the end of his retraining they announced that if he returned to Cyprus, they would lock him in a concentration camp. It was easier for them to exile themselves.

But he took the plane back through Athens. In the office of BEA in the Constitution, when he tried to close a post for Cyprus, they gave him an envelope with a letter from colonial secretary John Redaway, where they announced that he was banned from entering Cyprus. Six months later, they sent him his pause. He stayed in Athens until March 1959. With Zurich, it seems that his ban on his entry into Cyprus has also come, and he has returned to work, as if nothing had happened.

Return to Cyprus after independence
With the departure of the English from Cyprus, he took over the Technical Department of RIK and hired Cypriot technicians. But the project was huge, because the Cypriot technicians who came were qualified, but had never worked on Radio. And the TV the English installed was a test, with a very small transmitter, some watts, to effectively cover only