Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Попов; born 24 February 1945 in Tambov Oblast) is a Soviet Russian scientist in the fields of philosophy and economy. Doktor Nauk in Philosophical Sciences (1989), Professor at the Saint Petersburg State University, Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a popularizer of Marxism and socialism. He is the leader and ideologist of the Workers' Party of Russia.

He was a Komsomol member. Lived in Leningrad (since 1946). He graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Saint Petersburg State University in 1968.

He received the Candidate's degree in 1971. In 1987, he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1995, he received the title of Professor.

From 1971 he worked at the Saint Petersburg State University. Alexei Kudrin was his student.

Popov is the author of 9 monographs and more than 300 works.

Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1967. He was a member of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was a candidate for People's Deputies of the USSR. In the 1991 Russian presidential election, Mikhail Popov was a trusted representative of Albert Makashov. Popov was assistant to Oleg Shein.

He is a Molodaya Gvardiya (magazine) award winner (1981).