Murad Magomedovich Kazhlayev[a] (15 January 1931 – 23 December 2023) was a Russian and Lak composer and conductor.

He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev [ru], a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

[3] He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from the composition class of Boris Zeidman [ru].

He worked as a teacher at a musical school named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as a chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphonic Orchestra (1957–1958), artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic Hall (1963–1964) and secretary of administration of the Union of Soviet Composers (from 1968).

[5][6] His father was Magomed Davudovich (1894-1963; otolaryngologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences), his mother was Yelena Mikhailovna (1908-1983; phoniatrician).