In 1976, she enrolled in the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and obtained her degree in 1984.

After her education, she was an actress who starred in theatrical performances at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow.

She then worked at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where she would stay until her death.

She made her debut on screen playing a student in the teen melodrama School Waltz in 1977.

Durova married two actors, with her first husband being Sergei Nasibov,[4] and her second being Vladimir Ershov.