Shubina also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1958, K-4 500 m: 1963, 1966) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1963, 1966).

[1][2][3] Shubina was born in a family of a phone communications engineer in Mordovia.

In 1950 she enrolled to Kazan State Medical University, where she continued training and competing in ski and athletics.

Her first canoe race was accidental – she was asked to replace a missing teammate; she did not even know how to swim.

[4] In 1956 Shubina graduated from the Kazan University, and later studied sport medicine in Saint Petersburg.