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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

By Michelle

August 31, 2022

Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the village of Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai.

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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union.

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By 1955 his hair was thinning and after the late 1960s he was mostly bald, a distinctive port-wine stain visible on the top of his head.

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He spoke in a southern Russian accent, and was known to sing both folk and pop songs.

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Gorbachev died at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow on 30 August 2022, at the age of 91.

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He died after a "severe and prolonged illness," according to the hospital, having been under the continuous supervision of doctors since the beginning of 2020.

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Gorbachev will be buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999, according to his will.

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Gorbachev was the longest-lived ruler of Russia in history.

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