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Inna Alekseevna Shirokova was born June 1, 1937 in the city of Kirov in a family of artists Faina Anatolevna Shpak (1906 – 1984) and Alexei Petrovich Shirokov (1908 – 1943). In 1955 she graduated from the Kirov high school, then studied at the Gorky Art School at the pedagogical department (1956 – 1961). Her teachers – Honored Artist of the RSFSR M. Kholuev, A. Saikina, G. Mironova. Her thesis painting “Before Exams” received an “excellent” mark. In 1961 she returned to Kirov, started working at the Kirov artistic – production workshops (1974). Since 1961, has been participating in art exhibitions of different levels – from local to international. Her first exhibition was called “Kirov artists to the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union”, where Shirokova exhibited her diploma painting “Before Exams”. Later (since 1964), in addition to numerous regional, there were group, personal, regional, national, all-Russian, all-Union, foreign exhibitions.