Murat Salihow

Murat Salihov (; 1905 – 5 November 1938) was a chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kyrgyz SSR.

Biography Salihov was born in 1905 in the village of Ravat, Osh district (now in Marhamat District of the Andijan Region) in a poor peasant family. In 1916–1918, he worked as a shepherd at the bai in the Sülüktü region. In 1919, he joined the YCL. In 1919–1922, he studied at the Kokand Pedagogical College, but did not finish the course. He graduated from the Kyrgyz Pedagogical College, according to other sources - from 1921 to 1925 he studied at the Pedagogical Institute of Education in Tashkent. - May 8, 1938 - Acting Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Kirghiz SSR

Salihov was arrested in 1938. In the execution list of 12 September 1938 "in the first category". He was shot near the village of Tash-Döbö, Kyrgyz SSR.

Family

Wife - Azhar (?-1945) - she studied at the HCAS, after the arrest of her husband she changed her surname and left for Uzbekistan; Son - Kuvat Daughter - Atyrgül