Olexander Popov

Oleksandr Pavlovych Popov (; born 22 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, former head of the Kyiv City State Administration.

Biography He graduated Tyumen Civil Engineering Institute and Higher School of the KGB in Kyiv.

From 1982 to 1984, he served in the Soviet Army. From 1984 to 1986, he worked as a foreman of the Kremenchugrudstroy trust. In 1987 he was a foreman of the repair and construction department of Poltava GOK. Though Chernovetskyi remained the mayor, effective power then started to rests with the appointee Popov, not mayor Chernovetskyi. Kyiv then did not have an elected mayor until mayor Vitali Klitschko was sworn in on 5 June 2014. #tag:ref|Chernovetskyi tendered his resignation on 1 June 2012. The City Council decided the same day that Halyna Hereha would temporarily act as the mayor of Kyiv.

On 14 December 2013 President Viktor Yanukovych suspended Popov. The same day the General Prosecutor of Ukraine's Office handed "a notification on suspicion of abuse of power when ordering the Euromaidan police actions of 30 November 2013" out to Popov

The trial against Popov is ongoing since late 2013.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Popov was a self-nominated candidate in Kyiv's electoral constituency 212 (located in Darnytskyi District). In the election Popov was not elected to parliament since he gained fourth place with 9.52% of the votes (the constituency was won by Maksym Perebyinis of the Servant of the People party with 34.43%).

In the 2020 Kyiv local election (set for 25 October 2020) Popov was a candidate for Mayor of Kyiv nominated by Opposition Platform — For Life. In the election he received 68,757 votes, securing second place but losing the election to incumbent Mayor Vitali Klitschko who was re-elected in the first round of the election with 50.52% of the votes, 365,161 people had voted for him.

Wealth According to the 2012 declaration, Olexandr Popov owns two apartments (71 and 43 sq.m.). His family members have an apartment in Kyiv (86 sq.m.) and a land plot (529 sq.m.).

In the declaration, he also mentioned a Lexus ES car (2007) and a bank account with UAH 168,000.

The firm Ofer.Ua actively participates in tenders. One of the latest tenders it won was in August 2020. Popov will supply heat energy to the surgical and children's buildings of the intensive care hospital in Horishni Plavni.

Awards

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th Class (2012) Order of Merit, 1st Class (2011), 2nd Class (2006), 3rd Class (2001)