[2][3] Ruslanova was orphaned at two months old in late winter 1945 in Bohodukhiv.

Her surname (after Lidia Ruslanova) comes from the orphanages in the Kharkiv Oblast.

She moved to Moscow in 1969 and graduated Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.

Thereafter Ruslanova worked in Vakhtangov Theater, and from 1985 to 1988 in Mayakovsky Theatre.

[5] Ruslanova died from a long illness complicated by COVID-19 and pneumonia on 21 November 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.