Order of St. Equal-to-the-apostles prince Vladimir, International humanitarian Pushkin society award winner, First laureate of Eupraxia prize, Natalya Zemna (real name: Nataliya Petrivna Zubytska, maiden name: Yushchenko[1]) was born on 5 January 1942 in Krekhaiv, Chernihiv Oblast, URSR (now Ukraine).

Born on 5 January 1942 in the village of Krekhaiv, situated in Chernihiv Oblast, URSR, Natalia Zemna was raised in the family of traditional herbalists and wildcrafters, and thus became interested in the world of plants from the early age.

An unlucky occurrence in Natalia Zemna's private life became a powerful incentive to her deep scientific research in the field of herbology.

[5][6] Having married Danylo Nykyforovych Zubytsky, a hereditary healer in the third generation, Natalia started to work in the Apothecary of Folk Medicine (Apteka narodnykh likiv) in 1991.

In 2011 she starred in the made-for-YouTube[7] documentary series Zemna Styhija (English: The Earth Element) about the healing power of plants.