Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev's Wife? Late Activist And Philosopher Raisa Gorbachev

Russian politician and last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev passed away on August 30. Agencies reported the death of the 91-year-old following a “serious and long illness”.

The longest-lived ruler of Russia in history Mikhail Gorbachev will be buried next to his late wife Raisa Gorbachev in Novodevichy Cemetary in Moscow. According to Russian news agencies, Gorbachev suffered from acute diabetes and was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Moscow.

The late politician has served as President of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Community Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev’s late wife Raisa was an activist who passed away in 1999 aged 67.

Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev Wife?

• Raisa Gorbachev was the wife of the politician Mikhail Gorbachev and an activist known for raising funds to preserve Russian cultural heritage, fostering new talent, and treatment programs for children’s blood cancer.
• Gorbachev was born in the city of Rubtsovsk in Siberia and is the daughter of Maxim Andreyenich Titarenko, a railway engineer hailing from Chernihiv, Ukraine.
• She spent her childhood in the Ural Mountains, the mountain range that runs through western Russia.
• The philosopher studied in Moscow and earned an advanced degree at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.
• Gorbachev met her future husband Mikhail while she was studying philosophy in Moscow. She got married to Mikhail in September 1953 and the couple moved to Stavropol, Russia upon graduation.
• Gorbachev have birth to her daughter Irina in 1957 and the couple returned to Moscow as Mikhail was a rising Soviet Community Party official.
• Raisa Gorbachev briefly took up the post of lecturer at her alma mater Moscow State University. She left the post after her husband was appointed as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• In 1997, she established Raisa Maksimovna’s Club to promote the participation of women in politics.
• Gorbacheva was diagnosed with leukaemia in July 1999 and travelled to Germany for treatment at the medical clinic of the Munster University Hospital.
• She passed away on September 20, 1999, at the age of 67. Following her death, her husband set up the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation, which raised funds to support those with childhood cancer.

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