Raisa Gorbacheva Raisa Gorbacheva Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva ( "Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova", , Титаре́нко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Russian activist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. She raised funds for the preservation of Russian cultural heritage, fostering of new talent, and treatment programs for children's blood cancer. Raisa Maximovna Titarenko was born in the city of Rubtsovsk in the Altai region of Siberia. She was the eldest of three children of Maxim Andreyevich Titarenko, a railway engineer originally from Chernigov in Ukraine, and his Siberian wife, Alexandra Petrovna Porada, originally from Veseloyarsk. She spent her
Raisa Gorokhovskaya in 1969 Gorokhovskaya worked for 40 years as a physiotherapists, at a Moscow boarding school for children with cerebral palsy. Her first son had the same disability, which motivated her to choose this profession. Since 1992, she competed in the masters category and won 15 European and world titles in diving. Because of her small weight she always preferred a fixed diving platform to springboard. She also competed in masters swimming at the national level. Raisa Gorokhovskaya Raisa Petrovna Gorokhovskaya (; born 12 February 1932) is a Soviet diver who won a silver medal at the 1958 European Aquatics Championships