Iraida Vladimirovna Matryokhina was born on 10 March 1936 in the village of Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR, one of six children born into the reindeer herding family of Klavdiya Grigoryevna Matryohkina (Russian: Клавдия Григорьевна Матрёхина) and Vladimir Mikhailovich Matryokhin (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Матрёхин).
Vinogradova graduated from the Department of the Peoples of the North in the A. I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute.
After graduating, she worked as a teacher in the villages of Zelenoborsky, Monchegorsk, and Olenegorsk.
Vinogradova has written poetry for children and adults, both in Russian and in Kildin Sámi.
In addition to her poetry, she was involved in creating the current standard orthography and teaching materials for Kildin Sámi.