Georgi Mikhailovich Popov

Georgi Mikhailovich Popov ( Russian Георгий Михайлович Попов ) (* 2 ^{. Jul} / 15. September  1906 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 4 January 1968 ) was a Soviet politician of the Soviet Communist Party , among others from 1945 to 1949 First Secretary of the Party Committee of Moscow, between 1949 and 1951 Minister for Urban Development, 1951 Minister for Agricultural Machinery and from 1953 to 1954 Ambassador to the People's Republic of Poland .

Life

Party leader of Moscow and Central Committee secretary

Popov, who was secretary of the Komsomol in Tambovskoye from 1919 to 1920 , attended the technical college for electronics there between 1921 and 1922 and was later an instructor at the Komsomol in Naberezhnye Chelny and secretary of the Komsomol in a textile factory in the Tatar ASSR from 1925 to 1928 . He joined the CPSU as a member in 1926 and between 1928 and 1938 worked as an instructor, department head and director in various factories. He also studied mechanical engineering at the Moscow Industrial Academy between 1935 and 1938 and then became an instructor in the Department of the Central Committee (ZK) for party organs in July 1938 , before he was second secretary of the Moscow Party Committee between November 1938 and 1945.

After he was on the XVIII. CPSU party congress from March 10 to 21, 1939, he was a member of the CPSU Central Committee between 1941 and 1952. After the start of the German-Soviet War in 1941, he also became a member of the Military Council of the Front Reserve of the Red Army . In addition, he served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council between December 7, 1944 and January 1950, and after Alexander Shcherbakov's death on May 10, 1945, he was also his successor as First Secretary of the Moscow Party Committee. He remained in this position until he was replaced by Ivan Rumjantschew in 1949, and during this time he particularly promoted Jekaterina Furzewa . In 1946 he also became a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , to which he belonged until the end of the second legislative term in 1950.

At the same time he was a member of the organizational office of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1946 and 1952 and served as Central Committee secretary between 1946 and 1949. In this capacity he was also chairman of the government commission in preparation for the 800th anniversary of the founding of Moscow in 1947, but gradually lost influence in the late 1940s.

Minister and Ambassador

On December 31, 1949, Popov was appointed as the successor to Konstantin Sokolow as Minister of Urban Development. He held this office until the ministry was dissolved on March 31, 1951. On March 14, 1951, he also took over the post of Minister for Agricultural Machinery from Pyotr Goremykin , which he held until his replacement by Sergei Stepanov on December 31, 1951. After leaving the Council of Ministers, he continued to lose influence and between 1951 and 1953 held the position of director of the aircraft factory " Michail Wassiljewitsch Frunze " in Kuibyshev .

On the XIX. CPSU party congress, which took place from October 5 to 14, 1952, Popov lost his membership in the Central Committee and instead became a candidate for the Central Committee again and retained this position on the XX. CPSU party conference from February 14 to 25, 1956.

In March 1953 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the People's Republic of Poland and thus the successor to Arkadij Sobolew . He remained in this diplomatic post until he was replaced by Nikolai Mikhailov in March 1954. He was released from the post of ambassador after he was criticized for meddling in the affairs of the Polish United Workers' Party and thus violated the statutes of the CPSU.

After his return to the Soviet Union, Popov, who was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Labor Banner three times , worked again for an aircraft factory before becoming director of a factory in Vladimir in 1959 and retiring in 1965. After his death he was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

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