Background
Shirshina was born on May 12, 1979 in the village Alakurtti of Murmansk region.
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Career
Her family moved to Petrozavodsk in 1984. Galina Shirshina has been mayor of Petrozavodsk since September 2013. Shirshina was originally a self-nominated candidate at the mayoral election.
She was later supported by the opposition party Yabloko after the registration of their own candidate Emila Slabunova was cancelled.
Shirshina"s electoral victory was considered as a major victory of Russian Democratic opposition. However, as a mayor she considers herself more as a civil servant who should be outside politics.
In January 2016 the news told that Shirshina is going to sue Petrozavodsk"s legislature for dismissal. Shirshina has been working at the student organization of University as well as on the Inter-Faculty Department of Psychology.
Foreign few years Shirshina chaired the department of educational psychology.
Before that she has been teaching psychology at the university. Before the Petrozavodsk mayoral election in 2013 Shirshina worked as a director of the local publishing house.
Membership
In December 2015, members of the Petrozavodsk City Council dismissed the mayor Galina Shirshina “for failure to perform their duties.” Alexander Khudilaynen, the Head of the Republic of Karelia, supported resignation of the mayor.
