Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Russian and Soviet politician. The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev cause of death
Gorbachev passed away after a protracted illness, according to Russian state news sources.
The man who is credited with ending the Cold War by bringing important political and economic changes to the USSR had been ill for some time.
According to RIA Novosti on Tuesday, “Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening following a serious and protracted illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital announced.
According to Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, the Russian president sent his sympathies.
Mikhail Gorbachev wife and children
He was married to Raisa Gorbacheva from 1953 to 1999. His wife died from Leukemia.
Instead of enrolling his daughter in a school reserved for the children of party leaders, he chose to send his lone kid to a neighborhood school in Stavropol. He was known for treating women with respect and was not a womanizer like many of his peers in the Soviet bureaucracy.
Mikhail Gorbachev net worth
He was worth 5 million as of 2022.
Mikhail Gorbachev funeral
Putin will communicate with Gorbachev’s loved ones on Wednesday, according to RIA Novosti.
According to the Gorbachev Foundation, he will be laid to rest alongside his wife in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, according to RIA Novosti.
