The UNIAN Archive. Mikhail Gorbachev, the former USSR President together with his wife Raisa on October 30, 1999. Raisa Gorbacheva died at an age of 67 in the Munster-based hospital, Germany, on Monday, September 20, 1999 at 7a.m. (Moscow time). From July 26, 1999 she was on treatment (diagnosis 'leukemia') in that hospital. Photo by AP/ UNIAN