Georgy Popov (politician)

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).

In the 1920s, at Komsomol work in the Tambov Oblast and the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

From November 1938 to 1945, second secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

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".