[1][2] Natalia Gvishiani was born on June 29, 1959, in Moscow, Russian Federation where she ultimately graduated from high school with a silver medal.
Since 1972, she has been working at the Department of English, Linguistics, Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University.
[4] She is also the first president and founder of the International Linguistics Association of Teachers of English Language (LATEUM).
[5] From 1973 to 1998, she participated on a yearly basis, to the IATEFL conferences and is, as of 1997, a member of the International Association of Linguists focused on the research on computerized archives of the English language.
On December 20, 2010, by decision of the Academic Council, Gvishiani was made a 'Distinguished professor of the University of Moscow'.