| Office: | First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers |
| Primeminister: | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| Term Start: | 1 November 1985 |
| Term End: | 7 June 1989 |
| Order1: | First Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee of the Communist Party |
| Term Start1: | 4 December 1978 |
| Term End1: | November 1985 |
| Predecessor1: | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Successor1: | Ivan Boldyrev |
| Order2: | First Secretary of the Karachay-Cherkessia Regional Committee of the Communist Party |
| Term Start2: | 25 June 1975 |
| Term End2: | 16 December 1978 |
| Predecessor2: | Fyodor Burmistrov |
| Successor2: | Alexei Inzhievsky |
| Birth Name: | Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky |
| Birth Date: | 20 October 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Golubovskiy Rudnik, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1946-1989) |
| Alma Mater: | Stavropol Pedagogical Institute |
| Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky (ru|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.
Murakhovsky hailed from a Ukrainian family. He was born in a village, Holubivka, near Kreminna (Luhansk Oblast), on 20 October 1926.[1] [2] He attended Stavropol Pedagogical Institute and graduated in 1954.[1]
Murakhovsky served in the Soviet Army from 1944 to 1950. In 1946, he joined the Communist Party.[1] Then he worked as a communist party officer in the Stavropol region from 1954 to 1985. 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.[3] He also served as the first secretary of the Stavropol Komsomol Committee.[4] [5] 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.[6] [7] In 1981, Murakhovsky became a full member of the party's central committee.[1]
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.[3] [8] [4] It was his first post in Soviet administration.[8] 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.[1] [10] The reason for its disestablishment was its proven inefficiency for which Gorbachev criticised Murakhovsky.[11] Murakhovsky's term also ended in 1989.[2] [12]
Murakhovsky died on 12 January 2017, aged 90.[13] [14]