Shorin Ivan Alexandrovich was born in 1860 in the village Vyezd of Krasnoselskaya volost (small administrative district of czarist Russia) in a family of peasants – the Old Believers. Upon receipt of the primary education, he went through all the stages to become a professional seasonal worker-boilermaker. Then he established himself as the boiler master and in this position he worked until 1888 on the construction of the storage reservoirs for Moscow business person Altfater in different cities of Russia: Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Orel, Tsaritsyn, Batumi. In 1888-1897 he worked in the ‘Drafting office of Alexander Veniaminovich Bari’ in Moscow, which specialized in the construction of the bridges, storage reservoirs, product pipelines, oil stations and ships and in the manufacture and installation of the building structures and boilers. In 1897–1902 Shorin worked as the master mechanic at the Tikhoretskaya station of the Vladikavkaz railway. In 1902 he founded a boiler production on the right bank of the Klyazma River in Gorokhovets, thereby establishing a boiler and shipbuilding plant. In 1907 the world’s biggest fuel-oil barge “Marfa Posadnitsa” was built here, in 1908-1910 there were built another two similar barges, such as “Natalya Naryshkina” and “Boyaryna Morozova”, and in 1913 a hospital barge was built for the Astrakhan roadstead.
Shorin was actively involved in charity in the Gorokhovets sheading.
Ivan Alexandrovich died on March 26, 1918 at the age of 58 years. He was buried in the village Vyezd at the Old Believer cemetery. According to the decision of the Shorin’s factory committee the coffin with the body of Ivan Alexandrovich was carried on the shoulders from the village settlement Krasnoe and to the cemetery near the village Vyezd, and during the all procession of the huge funeral cortege the factory buzzer did not stop the buzzing.