Vsevolod Murakhovsky
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office
1 November 1985 – 7 June 1989
Prime MinisterNikolai Ryzhkov
First Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee of the Communist Party
In office
4 December 1978 – November 1985
Preceded byMikhail Gorbachev
Succeeded byIvan Boldyrev
First Secretary of the Karachay-Cherkessia Regional Committee of the Communist Party
In office
25 June 1975 – 16 December 1978
Preceded byFyodor Burmistrov
Succeeded byAlexei Inzhievsky
Personal details
Born
Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky

(1926-10-20)20 October 1926
Golubovskiy Rudnik, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died12 January 2017(2017-01-12) (aged 90)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1946-1989)
Alma materStavropol Pedagogical Institute

Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky (Russian: Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский; 20 October 1926 – 12 January 2017) was a Ukrainian-Soviet politician who served as first deputy premier during the leadership of Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Early life and education

Murakhovsky hailed from a Ukrainian family.[1] He was born in a village, Holubivka, near Kreminna (Luhansk Oblast), on 20 October 1926.[2][3] He attended Stavropol Pedagogical Institute and graduated in 1954.[2]

Career

Murakhovsky served in the Soviet Army from 1944 to 1950.[1] In 1946, he joined the Communist Party.[2] Then he worked as a communist party officer in the Stavropol region from 1954 to 1985.[1] He was first secretary of the Stavropol Party gorkom in the period 1970-1974 and first secretary of the Karachai-Cherkessia Party obkom between 1975 and 1978.[4] He also served as the first secretary of the Stavropol Komsomol Committee.[5][6] He replaced Mikhail Gorbachev as first secretary of party's regional committee when the latter was appointed to party's central committee secretariat in Moscow in 1978.[7][8] In 1981, Murakhovsky became a full member of the party's central committee.[2]

Murakhovsky's term as first secretary of the Stavropol Komsomol Committee ended in November 1985 when he was appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev as one of the three first deputy premiers.[4][1][5] It was his first post in Soviet administration.[1] Murakhovsky was in charge of agriculture and related affairs[9] and was also appointed chairman of the state committee for the agro-industrial complex, Gosagroprom, which was abolished in 1989.[2][10] The reason for its disestablishment was its proven inefficiency for which Gorbachev criticised Murakhovsky.[11] Murakhovsky's term also ended in 1989.[3][12]

Death

Murakhovsky died on 12 January 2017, aged 90.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Archie Brown (1996). The Gorbachev Factor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-19-157398-9.
  2. ^ a b c d e Martin McCauley (1997). Who's who in Russia since 1900. London; New York: Routledge Chapman & Hall. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-415-13897-0.
  3. ^ a b "Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский" [Vsevolod Seraphimovich Murakhovski]. Portrets. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b Rahib Bayramov (2005). Transformation of the Soviet top- elite in its last decade (1981-1991) (PhD thesis). Middle East Technical University. p. 71. hdl:11511/15687.
  5. ^ a b Christian Schmidt-Häuer; Mária Huber (1986). Gorbachev: The Path to Power. Topsfield, MA: Salem House. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-85043-015-5.
  6. ^ Anna Cienciala. "Eastern Europe and the USSR from 1980 to the Present". Kansas University. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  7. ^ Ilya Zemtsov; John Farrar (2009). Gorbachev: The Man and the System. New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4128-1382-2.
  8. ^ "Kremlin replaces deputy". Associated Press. 1 November 1985. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  9. ^ R. Judson Mitchell (1990). Getting to the Top in the USSR: Cyclical Patterns in the Leadership Succession Process. Stanford, CA: Hoover Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-8179-8923-1.
  10. ^ "Moscow Summit; Entertaining In Moscow: A Guest List". The New York Times. 1 June 1988. p. 14.
  11. ^ Anders Aslund (2004). "Differences over Economics in the Soviet Leadership, 1988-1990". RAND. 3277.
  12. ^ John P. Willerton (1992). Patronage and Politics in the USSR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-521-39288-4.
  13. ^ Maria Matsur (12 January 2017). "Ушел из жизни экс-руководитель Ставрополья Всеволод Мураховский". Российская газета (in Russian). Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  14. ^ "Ушел из жизни Всеволод Мураховский". Pravda (in Russian). 12 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

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