She graduated from Leningrad University in 1952 and received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics in 1961 from the same University.She received the USSR State Prize (Russian: ??????´????????? ???´??? ????) in 1986, together with Rein Avarmaa, Anšel Gorohhovski, Roman Personov, Boris Harlamov, Jevgeni Alšits, Ljudmila Bõkovskaja, Vladimir Maslov, Jaak Kikas and Konstantin Solovjov, for the cycle of articles "High-spectral-resolution spectroscopy and for the persistent spectral hole-burning of molecules and solids" (Russian: ???????, ???? ???????????, ???.