Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva ( tr. Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova, née Titarenko, Титаре́нко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet activist and philanthropist. She was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbacheva was the First Lady of the Soviet Union from October 1988 to December 1991.
Gorbacheva suffered from a stroke in October 1993. She was diagnosed with leukemia and died on 20 September 1999 at Münster University Hospital in Germany, aged 67.
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Other websites
Raisa Gorbacheva biography at the Gorbachyov Foundation website
Raisa Gorbachev's life in pictures, BBC News
Profile of Alexandra Titarenko (Raisa Gorbachev's mother)