[2] Narusova was born in Bryansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, the daughter of a Russian mother and of Boris Narusovich, a Jewish platoon commander in the Red Army and a lieutenant of the Komsomol, who later was appointed the director of the School for the Deaf in Bryansk.

In October 2002, she was elected a member of the Federation Council of Russia from Tuva Republic.

She also stated that Russian soldiers in Ukraine lay "unburied; wild, stray dogs gnawing on bodies that in some cases cannot be identified because they are burned.

"[9] On 4 March Narusova told the Federation Council, in livestreamed proceedings, of the heavy losses Russian forces were suffering in Ukraine.

[8] Narusova is the widow of Anatoly Sobchak (1937–2000), who was a prominent Russian politician, mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and the mother of Ksenia Sobchak (born 1981), who is widely known in Russia as a presenter on Dom-2 and other TV shows.