Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova (Russian: Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва), born Titarenko (Титаре́нко) (5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a major fundraiser for preservation of the Russian heritage, for new talents' education and for children's blood cancer treatment programs in Russia. She was the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Raisa Gorbachyova was born in the city of Rubtsovsk in the Altai region of Siberia, the eldest of three children of Maxim ...
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Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova (Russian: Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва), born Titarenko (Титаре́нко) (5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a major fundraiser for preservation of the Russian heritage, for new talents' education and for children's blood cancer treatment programs in Russia. She was the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Raisa Gorbachyova was born in the city of Rubtsovsk in the Altai region of Siberia, the eldest of three children of Maxim Andreyevich Titarenko, a railway engineer originally from Ukraine, and his Siberian wife. She spent her childhood years living in the Ural Mountains region, and met her future husband while studying sociology at Moscow State University. They married in September 1953 and moved to Mikhail's home region of Stavropol in southern Russia upon graduation. There, she taught Marxist-Leninist philosophy and defended her sociology research thesis about kolkhoz life.
She gave birth to their only child, daughter Irina Mihailovna Virganskaya (Ири́на Миха...
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