As reported, he will be buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.

In the West, he was valued for his contribution to the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany. Under Gorbachev in the 1980s, the Soviet Union signed historic nuclear disarmament and arms control treaties with the United States, and in the country Gorbachev initiated unprecedented reforms - Perestroika and Glasnost.

In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his activities in favor of nuclear disarmament and strengthening world security. However, during his reign in the Soviet Union, mass protests began, which eventually led to the collapse of the communist empire. In 1991 Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the state parliament voted to dissolve the state.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the only president of the USSR.

Gorbachev's health has deteriorated in recent years. He was often treated in the hospital.