Yevgeni Anatolyevich Popov (Евгений Анатольевич Попов) (born Krasnoyarsk, 1946) is a Russian writer, best known for short stories.

In 1978, he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers, but was expelled seven months later for his role in creating Metropol', an uncensored almanac that was published outside the USSR.

He found himself in trouble again in 1980, when he came under scrutiny by the KGB for helping to produce a similar almanac called Catalog, which was published in the United States.

His stories began to be published in large numbers in the 1990s; he has also written numerous novels considered to be in the metafiction tradition.

Since the early 2000s he has been an active internet blogger on Live Journal and a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin's government.