On 16 March 1937, Parshina was born into a large peasant family in the village of Maslyakovo [ce; ru; uk], Dregelsky District [ru], Leningrad Oblast (today the Lyubotinsky District, Novgorod Oblast).
[2] After she graduated from the agricultural institute,[3][4] she was sent to work at the Detskoselsky Order of Lenin state farm in the Tosnensky district, Leningrad region as a foreman of vegetable growers from 21 December 1959.
[1] Her team gave to the state five million seedlings and 900 t (990 tons) of early vegetable products during a period of five years when the farm grew on the site of greenhouses.
[1] Parshina and her team worked with scientists from the Institute of Plant Industry, the Agricultural Academy and the K. A. Timiryazev following which a school teaching students teams by vegetable growers and introduced children to agricultural technology basics was established on the basis of the brigade, which, in turn, was adopted by all specialised farms in the Soviet Union.
[6] Parshina was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 4 August 1971 and twice earned the Order of Lenin on 12 November 1973 on 24 February 1978 with the title of Hero of Socialist Labour and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal [az; ba; be; ka; pl; ru; tr; tt; uk] " for the outstanding successes achieved in the All-Union Socialist Competition, the labor prowess shown in the fulfillment of plans and socialist obligations to increase the production and sale of agricultural products to the state in 1977.