Irina Atykovna Azizyan was a Russian painter and art critic. Her work is in the collections of the State Museum of Oriental Art, the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, and the Vorontsov Palace Museum.
Irina Bogushevskaya is a Russian singer, poet, and composer of theater jazz and cabaret rock. Her largest event was a one-woman concert at the Kremlin Palace in 2005, which drew 6,000 people.
Irina Viktorovna Dryagina was botanist and veteran of the Second World War. During the conflict, she served as a squadron commissar in the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment until the post of squadron commissar was abolished, after which she transferred to the post of assistant chief of the political department for the Komsomol of the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, commanded by Alexander Pokryshkin.
Irina Viktorovna Dubtsova is a Russian singer, songwriter, and actress. She is the winner of fourth season of Fabrika Zvyozd (2004), released three albums until present and reached high positions in Russian music charts with several songs. As songwriter, Dubtsova wrote songs for other famous artist like Ani Lorak, Timati, Philipp Kirkorov, Polina Gagarina, Alsou, Zara, Slava, Sasha Gradiva, and others.
Irina Petrovna Glushkova is a Soviet and Russian indologist and philologist, a chief researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specializing in the study of Dnyaneshwar and the Varkari tradition of Maharashtra, India. She was nominated as the ambassador of Maharashtra tourism and culture in Russia by then Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on 11 July 2016.
Elena Sergeevna Ventsel, known by the pen name Irina Grekova, was a Soviet writer and mathematician. She held a Ph.D. in mathematics, and wrote several influential textbooks on probability theory, game theory, and operations research.
Irina Grigorieva, Lady Geim is a Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester and Director of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and the Applications of Graphene. She was awarded the 2019 David Tabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics and was elected as a Fellow of the Institute.
Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. Grandniece of the Decembrist Pyotr Kakhovsky, she was a representative of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution: in 1918 she organized the assassination of Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, commander of the German occupation forces in Ukraine. In total she spent forty-five years of her life in prison and exile, both under the Tsarist and Soviet regimes, as well as briefly at the end of World War I in German military jail.
