Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov

Gavriil Popov
1st Mayor of Moscow
In office
20 April 1990 – 6 June 1992
Deputy Yury Luzhkov
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Yury Luzhkov
Personal details
Political party Just Russia (2007-present)
Other political
affiliations		 Communist Party (1959-1990)
Democratic Russia (1990-1994)
Independent (1994-2001)
Social Democratic Party (2001-2007)
Spouse(s) Irina
Children Chariton
Basil
Alma mater Moscow State University (1959)

Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (Russian: Гаврии́л Харито́нович Попо́в; born 31 October 1936) is a Russian politician and economist. He served as the mayor of Moscow from 1990 until he resigned in 1992.

Biography

Born to a Greek family in Moscow, Popov graduated Moscow Lomonosov University in political economy. He joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1959 and served as a secretary of the Komsomol committee of his university. Popov remained at the faculty of economics as a graduate student, then docent, and in 1978 became dean of the faculty. Yegor Gaidar, who would become Prime Minister of Russia, was one of his students.

During Perestroika Popov became heavily involved in politics. On April 20, 1990, he became the first democratically elected mayor of Moscow. He resigned from the CPSU later that year, following Boris Yeltsin's lead at the 28th Congress.[1] He resigned in 1992 and was replaced by the vice-mayor, Yury Luzhkov. In January 2010, he and Luzhkov published an article highly critical of Yegor Gaidar.

After 1992, Popov returned to academia. He is now president of the International University in Moscow.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Garthoff, Raymond L. (1994). The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. p. 432. ISBN 0-8157-3060-8.

References

  • Timothy J. Colton (1998). Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-58749-9.
  • Marc Garcelon (2005). Revolutionary passage: from Soviet to post-Soviet Russia, 1985-2000. Temple University Press. ISBN 1-59213-362-2.
  • Boris Kagarlitsky (1995). Restoration in Russia: why capitalism failed. Verso. ISBN 1-85984-962-8. pp. 41–49.
  • Michael McFaul, Sergei Markov (1993). The troubled birth of Russian democracy: parties, personalities, and programs. Hoover Press. ISBN 0-8179-9232-4.
  • Pekka Sutela (1991). Economic thought and economic reform in the Soviet Union. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-38902-X. pp. 89, 122-165.
Political offices
Preceded by
Valery Saikin		 Mayor of Moscow
1990–1992		 Succeeded by
Yury Luzhkov


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