[1] Professor Zhukovskaya completed graduate work at Moscow State University (МГУ) in the History Faculty in 1961.
In 1996, she became the head of the Division of Asian and Pacific Oceanic Research (Отдел азиатских и тихоокеанских исследований).
Her works on Buryat history are concerned largely with the process of conversion to Tibetan Buddhism that began in the eighteenth-century and the relations between shamanic and Buddhist practice.
As a prominent scholar of Buddhism in Russia and of Buryatia, Dr. Zhukovskaya has been active in the Buddhist revivals of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Her work has been claimed to demonstrate a bias in favor of the increased role of Buddhism in daily life, as well as towards the Buddhist modernizers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.