On 30 November 2017 she was disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics, as a result of a positive doping test for turinabol.

[2] Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and taking up athletics at the age of 8, she began competing nationally in the long and triple jump around 2003.

That same year she won the gold medal at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships with a personal best jump of 6.81 m and came fifth at the 2007 Summer Universiade.

[6] She rarely competed internationally in 2008 and 2009, but managed third at the 2008 Russian Athletics Championships and was third at the 2009 Decanation competition.

She was again selected for the national team, but did not make the final at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships.