- From 1966 to 1970 studied singing at Rimskiy-Korsakov musical college of Leningrad Conservatory.
- From 1969 to 1974 was a singer with the Musical Comedy Theatre in Leningrad.
- Had one son, Vyacheslav Timoshin, Jr. (b. 1973), with her now late ex-first husband Vyacheslav Timoshin.
- People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002) and Honored Artist of Ukraine (2003).
- In 2016 she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but kept her diagnosis a secret from the public. Only her close ones knew about her disease. However, despite the severe disease, she continued to work and planned to speak at an event dedicated to the 74th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad in January 2018 but the same month she went into coma. She died on January 25, 2018 in a St. Petersburg hospital at 8:30 am at the age of 67, following nearly a 2-year-long fight with pancreatic cancer.
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