Iraida Vinogradova

• Name — Iraida Vinogradova • Birth Name — Iraida Vladimirovna Matryokhina • Born — 10 March 1936 • Birthplace — Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR • Died — 31 December 2004 • Place of death — Russia • Occupation — Poet, singer, scholar • Language — Russian, Kildin Sámi, Ter Sámi • Education — A. I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute

Iraida Vladimirovna Matryokhina was born on 10 March 1936 in the village of Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR, one of six children born into the reindeer herding family of Klavdiya Grigoryevna Matryohkina and Vladimir Mikhailovich Matryokhin. Her mother was from a Sámi family of hunters and her father was Russian, from a family of Orthodox priests from Lovozero. Her sisters Oktyabrina and Tamara are famous in their own right: Oktyabrina Voronova is also a famous poet and Tamara is the linguist T. V. Matryokhina. Vinogradova graduated from the Department of the Peoples of the North in the A. I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. After graduating, she worked as a teacher in the villages of Zelenoborsky, Monchegorsk, and Olenegorsk. Vinogradova has written poetry for children and adults, both in Russian and in Kildin Sámi. In addition to her poetry, she was involved in creating the current standard orthography and teaching materials for Kildin Sámi.