Thesis in the CVC (1976-1982) - Family, assessment - satisfactory. The training took place at the picturesque faculty, qualification of artist-painter, teacher.
1953 – born in Leningrad.
1982 – graduated from the Institute.And.E.Repina (a workshop of Professor E. E. Moiseenko).
1983 – painting "Family Tokarenko" (thesis) participated in all-Union youth exhibition.
1984-1988 – lived and worked in Moscow.
1988 – admitted to the Union of artists of the USSR.
1984 – 1990 – participated in the Moscow and Leningrad city, zonal, Republican and all-Union exhibitions.
1988 – returned to permanent residence in Leningrad.
1993 – personal exhibition in Loshe, Pavlovsk Palace-Museum.
1995, 1996 – personal exhibition in the Historical-literary Museum of Pushkin.
1996 – start of work on the series "Famous people of Tsarskoe Selo".
1999 – personal exhibition in the House of journalists (St. Petersburg).
2002 – personal exhibition in Mantua (Italy), Berlin (Germany).
2006 – personal exhibition in Aalborg(Denmark).
1990 – 2000s- the constant participant of exhibitions in St. Petersburg branch of the Union of artists of Russia.
Works by E. Orlova-Afinogenova are in private collections and galleries of Russia, USA, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Japan, Finland, Historical-literary Museum of Pushkin town.