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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Murakhovsky died on 12 January 2017, aged 90.[13][14]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.