Vsevolod Murakhovsky

Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky (; 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. He attended Stavropol Pedagogical Institute and graduated in 1954. He also served as the first secretary of the Stavropol Komsomol Committee. 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. In 1981, Murakhovsky became a full member of the party's central committee. and was also appointed chairman of the state committee for the agro-industrial complex, Gosagroprom, which was abolished in 1989. The reason for its disestablishment was its proven inefficiency for which Gorbachev criticised Murakhovsky. Murakhovsky's term also ended in 1989.

Death Murakhovsky died on 12 January 2017, aged 90.