Oktyabrina Voronova

Oktyabrina Voronova studied at Institute of the People of the North and Boarding school Lovozero. Training under Georgy Kert is recorded. The recorded working language is Russian, Ter Sami and Kildin Sami. Residence is recorded at Revda, Murmansk Oblast and Borovichi.

• Name — Oktyabrina Voronova • Birth Name — Oktyabrina Vladimirovna Matryokhina • Born — 5 October 1934 • Birthplace — Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR • Died — 16 June 1990 • Place of death — Revda, Murmansk Oblast, USSR • Occupation — Poet • Language — Russian, Ter Sámi • Spouse — Vyacheslav Voronov • Education — A. I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute Research Institute of National Schools

Matryokhina was born on 5 October 1934 in the village of Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR, the eldest of six children born into the reindeer-herding family of Klavdiya Grigoryevna Matryokhina 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 younger sister Iraida Vinogradova is famous as a poet in her own right. Her other younger sister is the linguist T. V. Matryokhina. In 1958, Matryokhina graduated from the A. I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. While still a student at the Pedagogical Institute, she went on linguistic expeditions to the Kola Peninsula, along with G. M. Kert and other fellow students. After graduating, she taught Russian language and literature at a school in Lovozero while also being enrolled in graduate school at the Research Institute of National Schools. She completed her classes by correspondence, graduating from the institute in 1980. Around this time, she married Vyacheslav Voronov, whom she had met in Leningrad. In 1985, the couple moved to Revda and Voronova started work as a librarian at the Central Library of Revda where she worked until 1990.

Voronova died on 16 June 1990 at the age of 55. She is buried in Lovozero.