[2] The singer's vast repertory included compositions by modern artists as well as traditional songs from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

[6] The Kremenchuk Automobile Plant's house of culture's district choir leader, Pavlo Ochenash, brought notice to her distinctive voice.

He was the one who assisted the young Raisa in obtaining the approval of the authorities of the communal farms to relocate to the city and join the choir.

She started having asthma attacks after the construction of the Azot chemical plant, which had a negative impact on her career.

Fedir Morgun, the first secretary of the Poltava Oblast Council at the time, fell in love with her profession, and doctors recommended her to leave the city.

[8] Although a folk group Rosava was made for her in Cherkasy in 1983,[8] she returned to Poltava in 1987[7] due to disagreements with the Philharmonic leadership.

[6] Hleb Kudryashov, her biographer, further claims that not many people are aware that Raisa donated her Shevchenko National Prize to the Chernobyl charity.

Funds were raised by Ukrainians for the procedure, which involved her flying to Germany in November 1996 to get treatment and be ready for a surgery in Kyiv.

[5] Other countries she toured included Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Algeria, India, Tunisia, Malaysia, the Philippines.

As directed by Raisa, she was buried close to her mother's tomb in the village of Koreshchyna, in the Poltava Oblast.

[5][1][7] Raisa met her future husband, Mykola Kyrychenko, a accordionist, composer, and arranger, in Poltava.

[7] In honor of Raisa, a memorial plaque was inaugurated at her parents' home on 13 October 2005, and a church was constructed in the village of Koreshchyna.