She began working in Dniprodzerzhynsk, where she was eventually promoted to teach welding at the rail car factory in October 1938.

Not long thereafter she relocated the Oryol aviation club, where she remained a flight instructor until the school had to be evacuated to Inzhavino due to the war.

[3] After the end of the war she was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 17 June 1945 for completing 926 sorties, which was awarded nearly a year later on 15 May 1946.

From September 1946 to June 1947 she served in the 930th Transport Regiment, after which she left active duty for the reserve with the rank of senior lieutenant.

[4] After retiring from active duty, Khudyakova served as chairman of the Teykovsky District DOSAV Committee from April 1949 to October 1951; she was admitted to the Communist Party in 1952.