Education
Popov graduated Moscow Lomonosov University in political economy.
economist politician Mayor of Moscow
Popov graduated Moscow Lomonosov University in political economy.
He served as the mayor of Moscow from 1990 until he resigned in 1992. 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.
He quit the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1990, becoming a staunch proponent of democratization. On April 20, 1990, he became the first democratically elected mayor of Moscow.
He resigned in 1992 and was replaced by the vice-mayor, Yury Luzhkov. After 1992, Popov returned to academia.
He is now president of the International University in Moscow.
He joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1959 and served as a secretary of the Communist Youth League committee of his university.