Sergey Popov

Sergey Alekseyevich Popov (; born on 15 May 1948), is a Russian politician, who had been a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma of the second, third, and fourth convocations.

Biography Sergey Popov was born on 15 May 1948 in Leningrad.

Education and teaching He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics in 1971, and Faculty of Law of the A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University in 1993.

In 1974, he was an assistant, then senior lecturer at the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (now - Saint Petersburg State Technical University).

Start of political activity From 1990 to 1993, he was a deputy of the Lensovet (St. Petersburg Council), and was the deputy chairman of the commission on upbringing and public education.

In 1993, he had been a member of the Regional Center Party (ROC; operated in St. Petersburg).

From 1993 to 1994, he was a senior lecturer at the Department of Higher Mathematics at St. Petersburg State Technical University.

In 1994, he has been a lawyer at the Saint Petersburg International Bar Association. The same year, Popov won two lawsuits that received significant media coverage: on the lawsuit of the Vice Mayor of Saint Petersburg Vyacheslav Shcherbakov against Mayor Anatoly Sobchak for illegal dismissal and on the lawsuit of a number of public organizations against the mayor about the illegal cancellation of the decision of the city election commission for elections to the Legislative city meeting in the spring of 1994.

He also participated in lawsuits “The labor collective of the Soyuzproektverf Institute against the Committee for the Management of City Property of St. Petersburg”, “Yabloko” against the Central Election Commission” (on invalidating the decision to refuse to register an electoral association).

From 1994 to 1995, he was an assistant to a deputy of the Federation Council of the first convocation, Yury Boldyrev.

In 1995, Popov was elected to the State Duma of the second convocation for the Southwestern District of St. Petersburg, and was nominated by the Yabloko party.