[1] Timofey Gorbachev was born in 1900 in the village of Troitskoye of Shatsky Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire.
[1][2] The scientist worked in the Kuznetsk Basin for more than 20 years, he held various management positions and was also the director of Kemerovo Mining Institute.
[1] In 1965–1972, the scientist was the editor-in-chief of the Physical and Technical Problems of Mineral Mining (Физико-технические проблемы разработки полезных ископаемых) magazine.
[1] Timofey Gorbachev was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner, medals, honorary badge Miner's Glory of the I and II degrees, the title of Hero of Socialist Labour (1948).
In 1949, he became a laureate of the Stalin Prize for the development and implementation of explosion-proof mine lamps.