Trained at the most prestigious Russian academies and with a distinguished career as a leading dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre and the Imperial Russian Ballet, she combines an in-depth mastery of classical technique—refined through the Vaganova method—with exceptional teaching skills, honed over decades of experience in both instruction and artistic direction. At the age of 10 she entered the Saratov State Ballet Academy. After 8 years of studying she graduated with honors as a professional dancer and immediately began working as a soloist at the Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1991 she entered the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow where she worked with great maitres such as Grigorovich, Bessmertnova, Lavrovskiy, Kondratieva, Karelskaya, etc. She also works on the “Imperial Russian Ballet” with Maya Plisetzkaya, Alexey Ratmanskiy etc. In 1998 she graduated with honors as a teacher-choreographer at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow, studying for classical dance with teachers Sirova and Kuznetzova, for pas de deux with Gdanov, for character dance with Farmanianz and for historical dance with Voronina. She later attended refresher courses in Vaganova methodology at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow and at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (ARB) in St. Petersburg. She works as a ballet teacher at the Krasnogorsk State Ballet Academy, at the Moscow University of Culture and Arts and at the “Young Ballet of Moscow” ballet school. She was also ballet-master at the “Imperial Russian Ballet” and at the “Theater of Classical Ballet” in Moscow. She is the artistic director of the “Young Ballet of Europe” international dance festival in Yaroslavl. As a dancer she played the main soloist roles of classical ballet (Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Nutcracker, Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, La fille mal garde, Carmen, Bolero; Golden Age etc.)