What is "popov"

Popov is a crater on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It is located along the very edge of the area of surface that is sometimes brought into view of the Earth during periods of favorable libration and illumination. However even at such times it is not prominent and can only be viewed edge-on.

This crater lies due south of Dziewulski, and the crater chain designated Catena Dziewulski passes just to the northeast of Popov's outer rim. Just to the southeast of Popov lies Möbius, and the two are joined together by a smaller crater that lies along the south-southeast rim of Popov. To the southwest lies the crater Ginzel and Mare Marginis.

Popov is a worn crater with a damaged outer rim that is little more than a circular, jumbled series of ridges in the surface. Several small craterlets lie along the rim and inner wall, particularly along the western side. The interior floor is otherwise relatively level and nearly without any features.

It is named after Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov, who is considered to be the inventor of radio in his homeland and eastern European countries. The asteroid 3074 Popov is also named after him.

Popov or Popoff (masculine) or Popova (feminine) is a common Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian last name. Derived from a Slavonic word pop (priest). The fourth most common Russian surname, it may refer to:

• Alexander Popov (disambiguation)
• Aleksei Popov (disambiguation)
• Anatoly Popov (born 1960), Russian politician, former Prime Minister of Chechnya
• Andrei Popov (disambiguation)
• Angel Popov (born 1979), Bulgarian-born Qatari weightlifter
• Apostol Popov (born 1982), Bulgarian football defender
• Blagoy Popov (1902–1968)
• Boris Popov (born 1941), Russian water polo player
• Denis Popov (born 1979), Russian football player
• Dimitar Popov (born 1970), Bulgarian footballer
• Dimitar Ivanov Popov (1894–1975), Bulgarian organic chemist
• Dimitar Iliev Popov (1927–2015), Bulgarian judge and former Prime Minister
• Dmitri Popov (disambiguation)
• Dusan Popov (1912–1981), Serbian double-agent, known also as Tricycle
• Eduard Popov (born 1988), Russian football player
• Egor Popov (1913–2001), Russian-American structural and seismic engineer
• Fedot Popov (died between 1648 and 1654), Russian explorer
• Frank Popoff (born 1930), American businessman and chemist
• Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (born 1936), Russian politician
• Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (1904–1972), Russian composer
• Goran Popov (born 1984), Macedonian footballer
• Haralan Popov (1907–1988), Bulgarian church minister
• Hristian Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian football player,
• Ivelin Popov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer
• Leonid Popov (born 1945), Soviet cosmonaut
• Markian Popov (1902–1969), Soviet Army General
• Mikhail Popov (disambiguation)
• Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russian engineer
• Oleg Popov (born 1930), Russian circus artist
• Peter Popoff (born 1946), German-born American televangelist
• Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
• Robert Popov (born 1982), Macedonian footballer
• Rumen Popov (born 1983), Bulgarian football player
• Sergei Popov (disambiguation)
• Serhiy Popov (born 1971), Ukrainian footballer
• Stefan Popov (born 1940) a Bulgarian cellist
• Stole Popov (born 1950), Macedonian film director.
• Strahil Popov (born 1990), Bulgarian footballer
• Valery Popov (disambiguation)
• Vasile M. Popov (born 1928), Romanian-born scientist and systems theorist
• Vasili Popov (disambiguation)
• Victor Popov (1937–1994), Russian theoretical physicist
• Vladimir Popov (disambiguation)
• Yevgeni Popov (disambiguation)
• Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (born 1936), Russian paleoentomologist

Popov is a brand of vodka produced by British drinks giant Diageo plc's Diageo North America subsidiary. It commands a significant marketshare among vodkas in the United States and competes in the low range pricing niche, and because of this it is also affectionately (and ironically) known as "Russia's Finest" among college students.

Popov is a common Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian last name.

Popov may also refer to:

• Popov (crater), lunar crater
• Popov (vodka), American brand of vodka
• Faddeev–Popov ghost, an object in theoretical physics
• Popov Island
• Popov Castle