[1] Her father is an Angolan, a paratrooper who studied at Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School.

When the girl was one month old, he was drafted into the Angolan army due to the outbreak of hostilities in Angola.

In 2004, at the age of seventeen, she was invited to the Tula club Tulitsa [ru], which, with her participation, went to the super league in one season.

Having played one season in the elite, she spent a year on loan at the volleyball club Hara Morin [ru] (Ulan-Ude).

In beach volleyball, she played in a pair with Galina Boyko, Anna Tishchenko, Olga Vyazovik, Natalia Stepanova, Ekaterina Birlova, Yana Kiselyova [ru], Anastasia Vasina, Alexandra Shiryayeva.