Irina Alferova was born on 13 March, 1951, in Novosibirsk (USSR). In the cinema she made a debut being the student of theatrical institute. In 1972 after the end of the institute of theatrical skill she was invited to play Dasha into the television series "Khozhdenie po mukam"(1973-1977), where she had enormous success. In 1976 she was enrolled ...
She has four children, one of her own and three she adopted. Indeed, adoption is common in her family. She and her first husband, Bulgarian diplomat Boyko Gyurov, have one daughter of their own, Russian actress Kseniya Alfyorova, who was born on May 24, 1974, in Sofia, Bulgaria. After Irina and Boyko divorced, Kseniya was subsequently adopted and raised by Irina's second husband, Russian actor Aleksandr Abdulov. When Irina married for the third time to Russian actor Sergey Martynov, whom she met on the set of Zvezda sherifa (1992), she adopted and raised his two children, Anastasiya and Sergey. Irina also adopted and raised her sister Tatyana's son, Aleksandr, after Tatyana died in 1997.