Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov

Gavriil Popov Kharitonovich (Russian Гавриил Харитонович Попов, scientific transliteration Gavriil Popov Charitonovič; born October 31, 1936 in Moscow ) is a Russian economic expert, who was from 1991 to 1992 mayor of Moscow.

Biography

Popov grew up in Moscow and studied from 1954 to 1959 economics at Moscow State University. Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant and later as a lecturer from 1978 to 1988 as Dean of the Faculty of Economics. One focus of Popov's research was the economy of the former Soviet Union as well as approaches for economic reforms towards a free market economy.

His political career began in 1989 when he was elected to the Congress of People 's Deputies of the USSR. As parliamentarians Popov belonged to a liberal -oriented group of deputies. In March 1990, Popov was elected to the Moscow City Council ( Mossoviet ) and was a month later its chairman and thus mayor. After the reform of the Moscow administration system in 1991, the Office of the Mayor was (Russian мэр / mer, see Mayor ) created and first held an election to that office in June of the same year. This Popov defeated his predecessor as Mossovet Chairman, Valery Saikin, and became the first Moscow mayor in recent history.

As Mayor Popov was fitted by decree of the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin with a variety of special powers that allowed him, among other things, initiate a mass privatization of city property. In addition, Popov initiated in this office a large administrative reform within the city executive and territorial reform, after which the previous 33 Stadtrajons of Moscow were replaced by ten administrative districts with more than 120 sub- districts. A Variety of renamed during the Soviet era streets and squares have been returned its historical name in Popov's tenure. At the same time the wave of privatization and increased settlement of private enterprise in the city initially led to massive economic problems, mass poverty, chaos and escalating crime. This fact required Popov to a resignation in June 1992. His successor was the former vice-mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.

Following the resignation Popov was mid-1992 rector (later President ) founded a year earlier Moscow International University. Since 2001 he has also been a board member of the same year founded the Social Democratic Party of Russia, which is, however, politically insignificant.

Popov is married and has two sons.

Publications

Popov is the author of over one hundred scientific publications, including the management theory as well as economic reforms of the late Soviet period. Among his pupils was the famous liberal politician Yegor Gaidar, who was a Russian head of government beginning of the 1990s, and became known in this time of radical economic reforms.