She graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages in 1973 (first degree, diploma of French teacher) and got her Doctor of Philosophy at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences (Moscow) in 1981 (thesis: Javanese Wayang Purwa performance as a semiotic system).
Inna Solomonik has been studying the history of the puppet theatre for over 40 years. From 1961 till 1991 she was a research fellow with the Museum of Puppets under the State Academic Central Puppet Theatre led by Sergey Obraztsov. She began her research career by investigating folk puppet shows in pre-revolutionary Russia, then in Europe and the Americas.
By the late 1960s she prepared some volume of documents, descriptions, and so on (about 3000 typed pages) on the history of the Russian folk puppet theatre.
In 1993 a small part of this work was printed in the book Puppets come in the stage. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Inna Solomonik turned to studies of oriental puppet performances.
In 1980 she was ready with her Doctor of Philosophy thesis. The kernel of this research was a semiotic analysis of the silhouettes of Wayang Purwa figures.
Later Inna Solomonik continued to study the Asian puppet theatre, and published two monographs on the subject (1983, 1992).
In 2001 she published the book-album on Javanese Wayang Beber.
She was an active member of the Nusantara Society.
