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Gavriil Popov (politician)

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Gavriil Popov
Гавриил Попов
Popov in 1991
1st Mayor of Moscow
In office
12 June 1991 – 6 June 1992
DeputyYury Luzhkov
Preceded byYury Luzhkov as chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council
Succeeded byYury Luzhkov
Personal details
Born (1936-10-31) 31 October 1936 (age 87)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyJust Russia (2007–present)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party (1959–1990)
Democratic Russia (1990–1994)
Independent (1994–2001)
Social Democratic Party (2001–2007)
SpouseIrina
ChildrenChariton
Basil
Alma materMoscow State University (1959)

Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (Russian: Гавриил Харитонович Попов, IPA: [ɡəvrʲɪˈiɫ xərʲɪˈtonəvʲɪtɕ pɐˈpof]; born 31 October 1936), anglicised as Gabriel Popov, is a Russian politician and economist. He served as the mayor of Moscow from 1991 until he resigned in 1992.

Biography

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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 June 12, 1991, he became the first democratically elected mayor of Moscow. In 1990, he left the CPSU, 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

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  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

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Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Moscow
1990–1992
Succeeded by