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 Bogatyrova funds that had been allegedly misappropriated. According to the Ukrainian magazine Bogatyrova has placed among the top 10 most influential women in Ukraine since 2005-2010 (five years). She was recognized as the second most influential woman in 2006-2008 after Yulia Tymoshenko. Bogatyrova was born on January 6, 1953 in the town of Bakal, Chelyabinsk Oblast, of the Russian SFSR (then the Soviet Union) to family of workers. She was born on the day of the Christmas Eve according to the Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Her father is Vasyl Petrovych Laktionov (1912–1985) and mother - Hanna Markivna Laktionova (born 1918). Raisa has