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Iraida Vinogradova
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| Born | Iraida Vladimirovna Matryokhina (1936-03-10)10 March 1936 Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR |
| Died | 31 December 2004(2004-12-31) (aged 68) Russia |
| Occupation | Poet, singer, scholar |
| Language | Russian, Kildin Sámi, Ter Sámi |
| Alma mater | A. I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute |
Iraida Vladimirovna Vinogradova (née Matryokhina, Russian: Ираида Владимировна Виноградова née Матрёхина, 10 March 1936 Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR — 31 December 2004 Russia) was a Soviet and Russian Sámi poet who wrote in both Kildin and Ter Sámi, singer of Sámi songs, a scholar of the Ter Sámi language, and a member of the Kola Sámi Association (Kildin Sami: Куэлнэгк Соаме Э̄хтнэгк, Russian: Ассоциация кольских саамов).
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 (Russian: Клавдия Григорьевна Матрёхина) and Vladimir Mikhailovich Matryokhin (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Матрёхин). 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 Ter Sámi 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, both in Russian and in Kildin Sámi. In addition to her poetry, she was involved in creating Sámi-Russian and Russian-Sámi dictionaries.[1]
In1994, Vinogradova and Elvira Galkina won the first ever Saami Council Literature Prize together but for separate Kildin Saami books that were later translated into Northern Saami and published as bilingual Kildin Saami-Northern Saami books. Vinogradova won the literature prize for the book Мун ка̄нҍц - Mu ustibat and Galkina for the book Пе̄ййвьесь пе̄ййв - Šerres beaivi.[2]
