Oktyabrina Vladimirovna Voronova (née Matryokhina, Russian: Октябрина Владимировна Воронова, née Матрёхина, 5 October 1934 Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR – 16 June 1990, Revda, Murmansk Oblast, USSR) was the first Soviet poet of Sámi origin to write a poetry collection in a Sámi language in Russia.
Matryokhina was born on 5 October 1934 in the village of Chalmny-Varre, Murmansk Okrug, USSR,[1] the eldest of six children born into the reindeer-herding family[3] of Klavdiya Grigoryevna Matryohkina[4] (Russian: Клавдия Григорьевна Матрёхина) and Vladimir Mikhailovich Matryokhin (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Матрёхин).
Her younger sister Iraida Vinogradova is famous as a poet in her own right.
In 1958, Matryokhina graduated from the A. I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute.
[6] In 1995, the Voronova Museum of Sámi Literature and Writing was founded.