Background
Alexandra Yakovlevna Yanshina was born on November 6, 1898 in Nizhnyaya Veduga, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
Alexandra Yakovlevna Yanshina was born on November 6, 1898 in Nizhnyaya Veduga, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
Alexandra Yakovlevna graduated from Voronezh gymnasium named after M.P. Kozhevnikova (1918), the chemical department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Voronezh State University (1926). She studied at the Voronezh Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops (1921-1922), the Art and Industrial College (1923-1924).
Participant of city, regional exhibitions. She worked mainly in the genres of landscape, still life. Head of the laboratory of the Voronezh Pharmaceutical Technical Plant (1926-1930), assistant of the Department of Biochemistry of the Voronezh State Medical University named after N. N. Burdenko (1930-1960).