Painter. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Born in 1937 in Kirov into the family of artists Faina Anatolyevna Shpak (1906-1984) and Alexei Petrovich Shirokov (1908-1943). Graduated from the Gorky Art School (teachers: Honored Artist of the RSFSR M. Kholuev, A. Saikina, G. Mironova). Since 1968, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. 1976-1981 – member of the board of the Kirov branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR. 2004 – awarded a diploma from the Academy of Arts.