Georgy Popov (politician)

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Georgy Mikhailovich Popov (2 September 1906 – 14 January 1968) was a Soviet politician who acted as the de facto mayor of Moscow, chairing the executive committee of the Moscow City Council from 1944 to 1949. He later held two USSR ministerial posts: Minister of Urban Construction (1949–1951) and Minister of Agricultural Machinery (1951).

Early life and career
- Born in Moscow to a workers’ family. In the 1920s, he worked with Komsomol in Tambov Oblast and the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- 1928–1938: Worked at the Central Institute of Labour in Moscow.
- 1938: Graduated from the mechanical engineering department of the All-Union Industrial Academy.
- 1938: Became an instructor in the Central Committee department of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
- 1938–1945: Second secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the party.
- 1941: Member of the Military Council of the Reserve Front.

Leadership in Moscow and the party
- 1944–1950: Chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council (de facto mayor).
- 1945–1949: Also served as first secretary of the Moscow City Committee.
- 1946–1949: Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
- Chaired the government committee for Moscow’s 800th anniversary celebrations.
- Helped promote E. A. Furtseva in 1948.

National roles and later career
- 1949–1951: Minister of Urban Construction of the USSR.
- 1951: Minister of Agricultural Machinery.
- 1951–1953: Director of the Frunze aviation plant in Samara.
- 1953–1954: Soviet ambassador to Poland; recalled for interfering in Polish party affairs.
- 1954 onward: Returned to aviation-related work; 1959 became director of a plant in Vladimir.
- 1965: Retired.
- Died in Moscow in 1968 and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.

Awards and family
- Recipient of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
- Married to Tatyana Viktorovna Fedorova.