| Murat Salihov | |
| Office: | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kyrgyz SSR |
| Successor: | Ismail Abuzyarov (act.) |
| Predecessor: | Bayaly Isakeev |
| Birth Date: | 1905 |
| Birth Place: | Ravat, Osh district, Fergana Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Chon Tash, Kyrgyz SSR |
| Resting Place: | Ata-Beyit, Kyrgyzstan |
| Party: | CPSU |
| Order: | 2nd |
| Termstart: | 27 September 1937 |
| Termend: | 15 February 1938 |
| Native Name Lang: | ky |
Murat Salihov (; 1905 – 5 November 1938) was a chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kyrgyz SSR.
Salihov was born in 1905 in the village of Ravat, Osh district[1] (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.[2] 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.
In 1925–1927, Salihov served as the head of the Osh district department of public education. Since 1927, a member of the CPSU (b), head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Osh Canton Committee of the CPSU (b), a member of the presidium of the district executive committee and the bureau of the district committee of the party. In 1931, the chairman of the Özgön district executive committee, later in the same year the chairman of the Osh district executive committee. In 1931–1933, 1934 he studied at the Tashkent Institute of Marxism–Leninism, completed 2 courses.
For some time he worked as chairman of the executive committee of the Osh District Council, 1st Secretary of the District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Kirghiz ASSR) and Deputy People's Commissar of Education of the Kirghiz ASSR, but the terms of service in these positions are not precisely defined.
Salihov was arrested in 1938. In the execution list of 12 September 1938 "in the first category".[5] He was shot near the village of Tash-Döbö, Kyrgyz SSR.