She married another Russian specialist in Arabic culture, Vadim Kirpichenko, who served as a KGB intelligence officer and resident in Tunisia and Egypt, while their son, Sergei Kirpichenko, was another Arabic specialist, this time in the diplomatic service, who had postings to several Middle Eastern countries, including as ambassador to Egypt.
Kirpichenko was born on 11 January 1930 in Krasnogvardeysk, now the town of Gatchina, in Leningrad Oblast, part of the Russian SFSR, in the Soviet Union.
[1] In 1974 she joined the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where she worked as a professor in the Department of Asian literature until her death in 2015.
"[6] In February 2014 Kirpichenko attended the third conference on the topic of "Translation and the Knowledge Society", hosted at the Cairo Opera House by the Higher Council for the Culture of Egypt.
[1][4] According to her family she died shortly after completing her translation of the works of Arab scholar, writer and journalist Ahmad Faris Shidyaq.