Mikhail Narolin was born on 19 October 1933 in Perlyovka, Semiluksky district (now Voronezh Oblast).

[8] Since 1969, head of the department of land reclamation and water management of the Lipetsk Regional Executive Committee.

Narolin won a landslide victory, gaining 49.8% of the vote (the closest pursuer was V. Bezrukov - 7.8%).

[10] At the same time, on 12 December 1993, Narolin was elected as a member of the Federation Council while serving as governor.

[11] On 21 September 1994, the Moscow City Court overturned the president Boris Yeltsin's decision to replace former governor Gennady Kuptsov,[12] but it wasn't enough to reinstate Kupstov into office, since Narolin was elected and was in already sworn into office anyway since 1993.

Narolin's son, Aleksandr, is the deputy governor of the Lipetsk region, in charge of construction and housing and communal services.

On 18 October 2013, in Lipetsk, in the park at the intersection of Lenin and Zhelyabov streets, a monument to Mikhail Narolin was erected.