On August 30, local time, according to the news from the Central Clinical Hospital of the presidential Affairs Bureau of the Russian Federation, Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 due to ineffective medical treatment. Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931. He has been the general secretary of the CPC Central Committee since March 1985. From May 1989 to March 1990, he served as chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. After March 1990, he served as the first and last president of the Soviet Union. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, Gorbachev mainly engaged in social and literary activities.