Professor Popov received his PhD degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1975 in the USSR and Dr. Sci. degree in 1993 at Kurnakov Institute of Inorganic and General Chemistry, Acad. Sci., USSR. In 1984–1985 he completed his postdoctoral work at ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Professor G. Anderegg. In 1997–2001, he was elected as IUPAC Titular Member of Commission V.6 (Chemical Equilibria Data), and in 1998–2001 as a secretary of this Commission. Since 2008, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Coordination Chemistry at Oulu University, Finland. His recent research is focused on the scale inhibition phenomenon and on the development of new antiscalants at JSC “Fine Chemicals R&D Centre”.