Ø Childhood and adolescence Ø Activities as General

Ø Childhood and adolescence Ø Activities as General Secretary and President Ø Following the resignation of Ø Awards and honors Authors: Leontyeva Anna & Budanova Anna 9 “B”

Mikhail Gorbachev (March 2, 1931) Gene. Secretary of the CPSU (March 11, 1985 - August 23, 1991), the first and the last president of the USSR (15 March 1990 - 25 December 1991). Has a number of awards and honors, the most famous of which - the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. With Gorbachev's activities as head of the Communist Party and the state are related to a large-scale attempt to reform the Soviet Union - The restructuring, which ended the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War.

April 8, 1986 the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev in Togliatti, where he visited the "Volga car. " May 15, 1986, a campaign to strengthen the fight against unearned income. Anti-alcohol campaign, launched May 17, 1985. Led to a sharp increase in prices of alcoholic beverages, reducing the production of alcohol, cutting down vines. Ending the war in Afghanistan and the withdrawal of Soviet troops 1988 -1989 Introduction of Soviet troops in Baku on the night of January 19 to 20, 1990, against the Popular Front of Azerbaijan. More than 130 dead, including women and children. Concealing from the public the facts of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant April 26, 1986.

Born March 2, 1931 in the village of Privolnoye Krasnogvardeisky district, Stavropol Territory, in a peasant family. Father - Sergey A. Gorbachev Russian. Mother - Mary Gopkalo Panteleevna. With 13 years combined periodically in school to work in the MTS and the farm. With 15 years as an assistant combine MTS. In 1948, seventeen years, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, as the noble combiner. That same year, drafted into the Soviet army, he served as chief of food stores. In 1950, he entered the Moscow State University. After graduating from law school in 1955, he was sent to Stavropol to the regional prosecutor's office.

After the signing of the Belovezhskaya agreements 25 of December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president. From January 1992 to present - President of the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies. Following the resignation of complaining that his "block all" that his family is constantly "under the hood" at the FSB, which publish their books in Russia, he can only "underground", in small quantities. In 1996 he announced his candidacy for the presidential elections of the Russian Federation and in the polls won 0. 51% of votes.

3 Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner "Badge of Honor" Medal of Honor