Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev
(1931-present)

statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1988-1989), Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (1989-1990), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (from 1990), and 1st President of the Soviet Union (1990-1991)

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Reception house of the Reykjavik city council. In this Historic House on 12 October 1986 the Reykjavik Summit meeting took place between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. This Summit Meeting is regarded as heralding the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

Shore Walk, Reykjavik, Iceland where they met (1986)