Ayrat Farrakhov (Russian: Айрат Закиевич Фаррахов; born February 17, 1968, Agryz, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Russian politician and a deputy of the 8th State Duma. In 2015 he was awarded a Doctor of Sciences in Medicine. From 1993 to 1995, he was the ward surgeon at the Kazan State Medical University department of surgery. From 1995 to 2006, he worked at the Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 2006 he was appointed the head of the Health Department of the executive committee of the сity of Kazan. From October 2007 to September 2013, he was the Minister of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan. He left the post to become the Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation. In 2014 he was appointed the Deputy Ministe