Article: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Top Officials of the USSR

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Top Officials of the USSR

Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931. From the age of 15 he worked as a harvester operator's assistant at a machine-and-tractor station combining his work with studies at school. He graduated from the Department of Law at Mikhail Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1955. In 1967 he graduated from the Department of Economics of the Stavropol Agricultural Institute (by correspondence). After graduating from the university he worked in the Stavropol Territory in the legal profession, and was soon appointed deputy head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Stavropol YCL Territorial Committee, and after that First Secretary of ...

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