In 1986 she graduated by correspondence from the Saratov Higher Party School.

Aparina also worked as an accountant, a cattleman, pig-tender, and a poultry woman.

Aparina had been elected as a deputy of the State Duma's fourth convocation on 7 December 2003.

On 22 June 2012 she retired as general secretary of the Volgograd's Communist Party of the Russian Federation branch.

She died from a grave illness in Volgograd (former Stalingrad) on 29 December 2013.