28 December 1905] 1906 – 28 June 1979) was a Soviet and Ukrainian Jewish conductor.

[1] Rakhlin was born January 10, 1906, in Snovsk, Gorodnyansky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire.

[citation needed] In 1941 he succeeded Alexander Gauk as director of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra.

On October 30, 1957, Rakhlin conducted the premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.

He was the founder of the Tatar ASSR State Symphony Orchestra [ru], which he led from its foundation in 1966 until his death in 1979.