Ukrainian-Soviet politician (1926–2017)
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]
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