Eighty-year-old Lidia Ivanovna Gorbova is a disabled person of group 1-B. In July 2014, she came to live at the Svyatohirsk Lavra as refugee and remains there to this day. Previously she lived in the city of Torez (now Chistyakovo) in the Gorlovka district of the Donetsk region.

In addition to her general infirmity, due to which Lidia Ivanovna was registered as a disabled person, she has reactive rheumatoid polyarthritis with impaired mobility of the musculoskeletal system and osteoporosis. She also suffers from coronary heart disease, atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis, supraventricular extrasystolic arrhythmia. Bronchial asthma has been her grievous companion in life for many years.

Lidia Ivanovna needs constant treatment, for which the lone old woman has no money.