The Old River connects Deepwater Slough with Boom Slough in the Skagit River Delta. It is both adjacent to and within the Skagit Bay Estuary Wildlife Area Unit on Fir Island. As with most of the sloughs in the delta, a boat is required for access.
Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the village of Privolnoye, then in the North Caucasus Krai of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.