Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Born in Russia, artist Irina Rybakova is a well-known master of landscape and genre painting. Her hometown is the village known as «Akademichka», base of the summer school of Repin’s Academy of Art (St. Petersburg, Russia).  Her work is widely recognized by colleagues, specialists, in Russia, Europe and overseas.

She participated in numerous plein air events in number of countries from the US to Japan, and has great range of awards, from certificates of local events to the level national awards from the government.