Polina Shanina nasceu o 24 de setembro de 1986 em SFSR russo, URSS. Era atriz e foi conhecida pelo seu trabalho em Kombinat 'Nadezhda' (2014). Morreu o 7 de agosto de 2017 em Moscou, Rússia.
In April 2017 her boyfriend committed suicide. She was depressed after his tragic death. Four months later, on August 7, 2017 at 17:32 (Moscow time), she wrote on her VKontakte page "nobody leaves" and jumped from the window at her Moscow apartment and died from the sustained injuries at age 30.