[1] In 1957, she graduated from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology in the Faculty of Biology, University of Kiyv.
[2] In 1981, Zerova established a laboratory of entomological taxonomy and ecology in the Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
This provided training in identification methods as well as undertaking further research into these groups of parasitic wasps.
[2] During her career, she described about 300 new types of wasps from different parts of the world, mainly of the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
[7] Her parents were the scientists mycologist Mariya Yakovlevna Zerova and botanist Dmytro Zerov.