Dr. Yuri Popov, born 5 March 1936, passed away 16 November 2016. Upon graduation from the Entomology Department of Moscow State University, he joined the Arthropoda Lab of the Paleontological Institute, where he studied fossil and living true bugs and their kin and became a major expert in that area. He was a man of many talents and had lots of friends all over the world. The few flashbacks collected here are but a small tribute to his memory
