1. In 1957, Mircea Snegur graduated from the high school in Frumusica, Floresti District, and went on to study at the Agricultural State University of Moldova, from which he graduated in 1961, and where he completed a PhD in agricultural sciences at the university's Department of Animal Husbandry in 1972.
From 1973 to 1978, Mircea Snegur was the director of the Main Agricultural Science Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Mircea Snegur was a member of the Communist Party of Moldova from 1964 until 1990.
On 26 March 1989 Mircea Snegur was elected member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in the 11th and 12th convocations.
On 29 July 1989, Mircea Snegur was appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Moldavia, serving in this role until 27 April 1990.
On 23 May 1991, Mircea Snegur became the president of the Republic of Moldova, still a constituent republic of the USSR.
Mircea Snegur decided to run as an independent candidate in the December 1991 presidential election, running unopposed after the Popular Front's efforts to organize a voter boycott failed.
On 3 September 1991, Mircea Snegur created the National Army of Moldova.
In December 1991, Mircea Snegur signed the act that made Moldova a full member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and on 2 March 1992, Moldova became a member of the United Nations.
Mircea Snegur instead sported the idea of a political union that would keep the political sovereignty of each state whilst engaging in economic and military cooperation.
In 1995, Mircea Snegur founded the Party of Rebirth and Conciliation of Moldova with former members of the Agrarian Party of Moldova.
Mircea Snegur ran as the Party of Rebirth and Conciliation's candidate in the 1996 presidential election, where he won a plurality, but not a majority, of votes in the first round.
Mircea Snegur published his memoirs in the book "Labyrinth of Destiny: memoirs" in 2007.
In 1960, he married Georgeta Mircea Snegur, and had a daughter, Natalia Gherman, who was acting prime minister of Moldova in 2015, and a son.