Vsevolod Murakhovsky

Vsevolod Murakhovsky
Vsevolod Murakhovsky
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
	In office; 1 November 1985 – 7 June 1989
Prime Minister	Nikolai Ryzhkov
First Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee of the Communist Party
	In office; 4 December 1978 – November 1985
Preceded by	Mikhail Gorbachev
Succeeded by	Ivan Boldyrev
First Secretary of the Karachay-Cherkessia Regional Committee of the Communist Party
	In office; 25 June 1975 – 16 December 1978
Preceded by	Fyodor Burmistrov
Succeeded by	Alexei Inzhievsky
Personal details
Born	Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky; 20 October 1926; Golubovskiy Rudnik, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	12 January 2017 (aged 90); Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1946-1989)
Alma mater	Stavropol 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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Archie Brown (1996). The Gorbachev Factor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-19-157398-9.
^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b "Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский" [Vsevolod Seraphimovich Murakhovski]. Portrets. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
^ ^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.
^ ^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.
^ Anna Cienciala. "Eastern Europe and the USSR from 1980 to the Present". Kansas University. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
^ 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.
^ "Kremlin replaces deputy". Associated Press. 1 November 1985. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
^ 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.
^ "Moscow Summit; Entertaining In Moscow: A Guest List". The New York Times. 1 June 1988. p. 14.
^ Anders Aslund (2004). "Differences over Economics in the Soviet Leadership, 1988-1990". RAND. 3277.
^ John P. Willerton (1992). Patronage and Politics in the USSR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-521-39288-4.
^ Maria Matsur (12 January 2017). "Ушел из жизни экс-руководитель Ставрополья Всеволод Мураховский". Российская газета (in Russian). Retrieved 12 January 2017.
^ "Ушел из жизни Всеволод Мураховский". Pravda (in Russian). 12 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

External links

[Brown1996-1] Archie Brown (1996). The Gorbachev Factor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-19-157398-9.

[McCauley1997-2] Martin McCauley (1997). Who's who in Russia since 1900. London; New York: Routledge Chapman & Hall. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-415-13897-0.

[Vsevolod-3] "Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский" [Vsevolod Seraphimovich Murakhovski]. Portrets. Retrieved 30 March 2013.

[rah-4] 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.

[SH1986-5] 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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