Gorbachev mikhail biography

Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in the village of Privolnoye, Krasnogvardeisky District, Stavropol Territory, in the south of the Russian republic into a Russian – Ukrainian peasant family who moved to the Stavropol Territory from the Russian Voronezh Region and from the Chernigov Province in the Ukraine.

His father Sergei Gorbachev worked as a combine harvester operator. In June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

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In August he was drafted to the regular army and put in charge of a combat engineering squad. He was in many historic battles of Great Patriotic War. In the end of May 1944 the Gorbachev family received a “killed in action” notice for Mikhail’s father.

For three days the family was weeping for their loss, but, fortunately it was a mistake: Mikhail’s father had survived though was badly wounded in the leg. For his exploits during the war he got government medals – Medal for Bravery and t