The artist was born on November 20, 1928, in Valuyki, Belgorod region. There he graduated from the village school where his parents used to teach. Miroshnichenko received a professional art education with the highest qualification category. After graduation, he worked for 40 years at the Valuy Pedagogical School as a Fine Arts and drawing technique teacher. Mikhail Miroshnichenko was engaged in teaching until the age of 70 when he retired in the 2000s. 

All of Mikhail Miroshnichenko’s works are imbued with sincerity, purity, and warmth. The artist was personally acquainted with the founder of the Valuy Museum of Fine Arts, Alexander Ignatiev. Throughout the history of the Valuy Museums of History and Art, he has always been a welcome guest at all events and a regular participant in art exhibitions. On his canvases, the artist depicted the building of the Valuy Museum many times. 

Works painted in the genre of portrait take a special place in the creative work of Mikhail Miroshnichenko. 

He painted a portrait of the Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Gritzov in 2008. At that time, the daughter of the Hero Zinaida Gritzova worked at the Valuy Museum. She talked a lot about her father, about his life and military service. 

Ivan Gritzov was a private, sapper of the 109th separate engineer-sapper battalion of the 57th army of the Steppe front. He fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War in 1942. He was especially distinguished when crossing the Dnieper. Being the steerer and senior crewman of the first boat on the night of September 26, 1943, during 17 trips under heavy enemy fire, he transported 172 soldiers, four regimental guns, six mortars, and a set of ammunition. Then Gritzov shipped artillery, mortars, and other military equipment on the ferry. On December 20, 1943, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Ivan Gritzov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin and various Medals for Combat Service to the Homeland.