[3] She continued her studies in the gymnasium for an additional eighth grade, which she completed the following year, receiving the title of home tutor.

[5][6] From 1920, she worked at the newly established Free Academy of Theoretical Knowledge, and after its liquidation the following year, she moved to the Kharkiv Institute of Popular Education [uk], where she worked as an assistant at the Department of Russian Literature History and simultaneously as a librarian at the Literature Cabinet.

[5][6] In 1940, she gained her Candidate of Philological Sciences degree on the topic of "Saltykov-Shchedrin's History of One City as an Anti-Nobility Satire" under the supervision of Oleksandr Biletskyi [uk].

She was engaged in the compilation of a collection of rare publications as part of the newly formed bibliographic group.

As a result of the work of this group, the Department of Rare Editions and Incunabula was founded in 1940, which was headed by Gabel.

[7] During the Second World War, she was forced to leave Kharkiv and was evacuated to the Kyrgyz SSR, where from 1942 until 1943 she worked as a bibliographer in the N.G.