Birth Name: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Place of Birth: Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR (present-day Russia)
Date of Birth: March 2, 1931
Ethnicity: Russian, Ukrainian
Mikhail Gorbachev was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved. He served as the country’s head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991). His father, Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev, was a combine harvester operator and World War II veteran. His mother, Maria Panteleyevna (Gopkalo) Gorbacheva, was a kolkhoz worker, of Ukrainian descent. He was married to Raisa Maximovna Titarenko.
Mikhail’s paternal grandfather was Andrey Moiseyevich Gorbachev (the son of Moisey Gorbachev).
Mikhail’s maternal grandfather was Panteley Yefimovich Gopkalo (the son of Yefim Gopkalo).
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