Galina Shirshina

Galina Igorevna Shirshina was the mayor of Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia.

Shirshina was born on May 12, 1979, in the village Alakurtti of Murmansk region. Her family moved to Petrozavodsk in 1984. Shirshina's electoral victory was considered as a major victory of Russian Democratic opposition. However, in her role as mayor she thought of herself more as a civil servant who should be outside politics. In January 2016 the news told that Shirshina is going to sue Petrozavodsk's legislature for dismissal.

Career Shirshina has been working at the student organization of University as well as on the Inter-Faculty Department of Psychology.

For few years Shirshina chaired the department of educational psychology. Before that she has been teaching psychology at the university.

Before the Petrozavodsk mayoral election in 2013 Shirshina worked as a director of the local publishing house.