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He was born on March 2 1931 in the village of Privolnoye Medvezhensky district of Stavropol Krai.Father — Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev. Mother-Maria Panteleevna Gorbacheva
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With 13 years combined schooling with periodic work in MTS and in collective farm. From the age of 15 he worked as an assistant to the MTS combine operator. In 1949 a schoolboy Gorbachev was awarded the order of the red banner of Labor for his hard work in harvesting grain
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He became a member of the party
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he married Raisa Titarenko
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Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee,
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Gorbachev's visit To China, normalization of relations.
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He became President of the USSR,
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Gorbachev announced his resignation From the post of President of the USSR and signed a decree on the transfer of powers to the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin
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he died