Despite dying young, she was known for "a series of brilliant papers" on the classification of complex or algebraic structures on topological spaces, on K3 surfaces, on singular points of algebraic varieties, and on the rigidity of complex structures.
[2] Tyurina was a 1960 graduate of Moscow State University, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1963 under the supervision of Igor Shafarevich.
[2] As well as for her work in mathematics, she was known as an accomplished outdoorswoman, the frequent leader of hiking, climbing, skiing, and kayaking excursions in the Russian wilderness.
[2] She drowned on one such trip in a kayaking accident in the Polar Urals, two days after her 32nd birthday.
[1][2][3] Tyurina's younger brother Andrej Nikolaevich Tyurin [ru] also became a mathematician and a student of Shafarevich.