Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Markhayev[a] (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Марха́ев; born 1 June 1955, Sharaldai, Bokhansky District, Irkutsk Oblast[1]) is a Russian politician who is currently a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma since 2021, as he already served a member of the State Duma elected in 2011.

In December 2007, Markhayev became the deputy of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia, the head of the Communist Party faction.

[6] During the 2011 Russian legislative election he received a deputy mandate for the 6th State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia on the CPRF list.

In 2017, Markhaev was nominated as one of the candidates for the head of Buryatia by Communist Party of the Russian Federation,[10] but he could not overcome the municipal filter.

[11][12][13] In 2019 he publicly condemned the heavy-handed police response to protests surrounding the 2019 Moscow City Duma election.