Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (russian: Гаврии́л Харито́нович Попо́в; born 31 October 1936) is a Russian politician and economist. He served as the mayor of

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from 1991 until he resigned in 1992.

Biography

Born to a

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family in Moscow, Popov graduated Moscow Lomonosov University in political economy. He joined the

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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

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of the faculty.

Yegor Gaidar Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (russian: link=no, Его́р Тиму́рович Гайда́р; ; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 Ju ...

, who would become Prime Minister of Russia, was one of his students. During Perestroika Popov became heavily involved in politics. On June 12, 1991, he became the first democratically elected mayor of

. In 1990, he left the

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, following

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

's lead at the 28th Congress. He resigned in 1992 and was replaced by the vice-mayor,

Yury Luzhkov Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov ( rus, Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в, p=ˈjʉrʲɪj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ lʊˈʂkof; 21 September 1936 – 10 December 2019) was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010 ...

. 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

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Footnotes

References

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Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis
'. Harvard University Press. . * Marc Garcelon (2005).
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'. Temple University Press. . * Boris Kagarlitsky (1995).
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'. Verso. . pp. 41–49. * Michael McFaul, Sergei Markov (1993).
The troubled birth of Russian democracy: parties, personalities, and programs
'' Hoover Press. . * Pekka Sutela (1991).
Economic thought and economic reform in the Soviet Union
'. Cambridge University Press. . pp. 89, 122-165. 1936 births Living people Russian people of Greek descent Mayors of Moscow Plenipotentiary Representatives of the President of the Russian Federation in the regions Moscow State University alumni {{Russia-mayor-stub