After finishing high school, he enrolled at Siberian Institute of Management in Novosibirsk, graduating with a diploma in 2005.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev agreed to take his painting with him on his regular ride to the International Space Station.

[4][5] According to Popov, "the painting will later become a stellar book, where will be placed creative visions of space topic the thoughts of modern writers".

As an interpreter, Popov was the first to translate into Russian the Vietnamese poem "Lamentations of tormented soul" by poet Nguyễn Du.

God willing, it will be more fun for us.Poet Nikolai Zinoviev evaluated the artwork of Popov positively: I forgot that words themselves can conclude and mean something besides the trinkets with which they were hung.