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Raisa Gorbacheva

1932 - 1999

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Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva (Russian: Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва, romanized: Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova, née Titarenko, Титаренко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet-Russian activist and philanthropist 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raisa Gorbacheva has received more than 1,289,053 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Raisa Gorbacheva is the 2,299th most popular politician (down from 1,521st in 2019), the 216th most popular biography from Russia (down from 160th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Russian Politician.

Raisa Gorbacheva was the wife of the Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. She is most famous for her work as a human rights activist and her work in the Soviet Union's Green Cross International.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Raisa Gorbacheva ranks 2,299 out of 19,576. Before her are Nicias, Athalaric, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Antigonus II Gonatas, Pak Hon-yong, and Childebert II. After her are Viriathus, Theuderic III, Aspar, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Gordon Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Raisa Gorbacheva ranks 37. Before her are Ellen Burstyn, Melvin Schwartz, Michel Legrand, Sirikit, Adolfo Suárez, and Ryszard Kapuściński. After her are Jean-Pierre Cassel, Zito, Donald Rumsfeld, Valentino, Roy Scheider, and Ted Kennedy. Among people deceased in 1999, Raisa Gorbacheva ranks 18. Before her are Yehudi Menuhin, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Wassily Leontief, Georgios Papadopoulos, Willi Stoph, and Robert Bresson. After her are Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe DiMaggio, Julius Nyerere, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and Akio Morita.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Raisa Gorbacheva ranks 216 out of 3,761. Before her are Gherman Titov (1935), Igor Tamm (1895), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Alexander Rodchenko (1891), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), and Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899). After her are Ivan Goncharov (1812), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Gustav Bauer (1870), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), and Alexander Oparin (1894).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Raisa Gorbacheva ranks 69. Before her are Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Mikhail Suslov (1902), and Gennady Zyuganov (1944). After her are Gustav Bauer (1870), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Boris Nemtsov (1959), Viktor Zubkov (1941), and Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024).

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