Born in Rostov on Don. Graduated from the Rostov Grekov Arts School and subsequently from the Lvov Arts Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts. From 1988-1991 was a costume designer with the Rostov Young Spectators´ Theatre where she created the costumes for productions of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Heron, Sebastian´s Garden, The Marriage, Much Ado about Nothing, Treasure Island, Hamlet, The Three Sisters and Krechinsky´s Wedding. Has created the costumes for productions of the Rostov Academic Gorky Theatre, The Vologda Young Spectators´ Theatre, the Krasnodar Youth Theatre and the Samara Young Spectators´ Theatre. Together with Kirill Serebrennikov she has worked on productions of The Marriage, Sebastian´s Garden (Rostov Academic Youth Theatre), Fedra and The Strange Fantasies of a Certain Miss Leticia Duffe (Rostov Angazhement Theatre).