Gavriil Popov (politician)

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Gavriil Popov
1st Mayor of Moscow
In office 20 April 1990 – 6 June 1992
Succeeded by	Yuriy Luzhkov

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

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 since 1978 he 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 CPSU 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.

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

References

• Timothy J. Colton (1998). Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674587499.
• Marc Garcelon (2005). Revolutionary passage: from Soviet to post-Soviet Russia, 1985-2000. Temple University Press. ISBN 1592133622.
• Boris Kagarlitsky (1995). Restoration in Russia: why capitalism failed. Verso. ISBN 1859849628. pp. 41-49.
• Michael McFaul, Sergei Markov (1993). The troubled birth of Russian democracy: parties, personalities, and programs. Hoover Press. ISBN 0817992324.
• Pekka Sutela (1991). Economic thought and economic reform in the Soviet Union. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052138902X. pp. 89, 122-165.