Personal Life
Pakhomova was the daughter of Alexei Pakhomov, an aviation general. She and Gorshkov married in 1970 and had a daughter, Yulia Gorshkova, in 1977. In late 1979, Pakhomova began having health problems and was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. She died at the age of 39 on May 17, 1986 and was interred in the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow. A minor planet 3231 Mila, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1972 is named after her.
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