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 Aronova away in December 1982 and was buried in the Kuntsevo Cemetery. Raisa Aronova Raisa Yermolayevna Aronova (; 10 January 1920 – 20 December 1982) was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator and pilot in World War II of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, later renamed 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment. She received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 May 1946, for completing 960 night bombing missions against Axis forces in the war. Aronova was born in 1920 to a Russian peasant family; her father was a railway employee. After graduating from secondary school she entered the Kalinin