Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva

(1911–1995)

BIRTH

1911

PLACE

Unknown

NAME

Maria Panteleyevna Gopkalo

DEATH

April 14, 1995

PLACE

Moscow, Russia

FAMILY

HUSBAND

Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev

(1909–1976)

CHILDREN

Mikhail Gorbachev

(1931-2022)

HOMES

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS

Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva, née Gopkalo, was Mikhail Gorbachev’s mother. She worked on a collective farm in the Stavropol region.

FARMER

EARLY LIFE

The Gorbachev Foundation describes her lifetime of work on the collective farm. Her family also experienced the disruptions of collectivization and the Second World War.

CAREER

DEATH

A contemporary obituary reports that she died in Moscow on April 14, 1995. It does not establish a medical cause.