Kobzarenko was a 1998 recipient of the Order of Princess Olga, Third Class and was made a Hero of Ukraine in 2009.

Kobzarenko was born in the village of Raiozero [uk] (today in the Orzhytsia Raion district), in the region of Poltava Oblast on 8 May 1934.

[8][5][7] Kobzarenko was appointed director of the State Republican Library for Children on the instruction of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR in 1967.

[1][7] She oversaw the construction of the new open-book designed library building[8] decorated with figured wrought-iron metal bars featuring photographs of multiple animals and plants in the Nyvky residential area (60 Bauman Street) in Kyiv from 1976 to 1978.

Kobzarenko sought to have the finishing interior design materials imported from Ukraine and other Soviet republics.

Kobzarenko was appointed the honorary title of Honoured Worker of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR in 1979.

[4] On 30 September 1998, Kobzarenko received the Order of Princess Olga, Third Class from President Leonid Kuchma "for significant personal contribution to the development of librarianship, high professionalism".

[4] President Viktor Yushchenko awarded Kobzarenko the Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the State on 19 August 2009 "for many years of selfless work in educating young people on the principles of spirituality, humanism and high morals.