| Georgy Popov | |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Office1: | Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council |
| Term Start1: | 7 December 1944 |
| Term End1: | 12 December 1949 |
| Predecessor1: | Vasily Pronin |
| Successor1: | Mikhail Yasnov |
| Office2: | Minister of City Construction |
| Term Start2: | 31 December 1949 |
| Term End2: | 14 March 1951 |
| Predecessor2: | Konstantin Sokolov |
| Successor2: | Position abolished |
| Office3: | Minister of Agricultural Machinery |
| Term Start3: | 14 March 1951 |
| Term End3: | 31 December 1951 |
| Predecessor3: | Pyotr Goremykin |
| Successor3: | Sergey Stepanov |
| Birth Date: | 2 September 1906 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow |
| Death Place: | Moscow |
| Resting Place: | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Citizenship: | Soviet |
| Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Awards: | Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow Industrial Academy |
Georgy Mikhailovich Popov (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Попов) was a Soviet politician who served as the chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council (de facto Mayor of Moscow).
Born into the family of an workers. In the 1920s, at Komsomol work in the Tambov Oblast and the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1928 to 1938 he worked at the Central Institute of Labour in Moscow. In 1938 he graduated from the mechanical engineering department of the All-Union Industrial Academy. Since July 1938, instructor in the department of leading party bodies of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
From November 1938 to 1945, second secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
In July – October 1941 he was a member of the Military Council of the Reserve Front.
From December 7, 1944, to January 1950, chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council of Workers' Deputies, and at the same time, after the death of Alexander Shcherbakov in 1945–1949, first secretary of the Moscow Committee and the Moscow City Committee of the Party. In 1946–1949, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. He was the chairman of the government committee for preparing the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Moscow. Contributed to the career advancement of E. A. Furtseva in 1948.[1]
From December 31, 1949, to March 14, 1951, Minister of Urban Construction of the USSR. From March 14, 1951, to December 31, 1951 – Minister of Agricultural Machinery of the USSR. In 1951–1953, director of the Frunze aviation plant in Samara.
From March 1953 to March 1954, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of Poland was recalled from Warsaw and was criticized for his interference in the affairs of the Polish United Workers' Party.[2] [3] Popov, as noted in the corresponding resolution of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, allowed an "arrogant attitude towards Polish comrades," which "could have caused serious damage to Soviet-Polish relations".[4]
Since 1954, he again worked at enterprises in the aviation industry. Since 1959, director of the plant (Vladimir). Retired since 1965.
He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. He was married to Tatyana Viktorovna Fedorova.[5]