Her novels concern the personal and professional lives of women in the Soviet Union.
She and her husband Karl Yanovich Zeite, a mining official, moved to Kolyma in 1932, where she began writing in 1935.
[2][3] Her first novel, Kolymskoe zoloto ("Kolyma Gold", 1936), was published under her married name A. Zeite.
[3] Ivan Ivanovich (1949) was the first in a trilogy of novels about the titular neurosurgeon, followed by Druzhba ("Friendship", 1954) and Derzanie ("Daring", 1958).
[3] She also wrote On the Ural River (1971) and her memoirs, Severnoe Siianie ("The Northern Lights", 1977).