She enrolled at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University in 2005, and she earned a Master of Arts degree from the institution in 2009.

[4] Following that, which Cherkashyna considered to be a turning point in her career, she participated in a number of autonomous initiatives for several years in collaboration with the British Council, the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, and the Polish Theater Institute in Warsaw.

Cherkashyna started her acting career in the Kyiv theater on the left bank of the Dnieper after receiving her degree from university.

[1] After watching Klondike at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals, Cherkashyna hoped that an invasion of Ukraine would not occur.

[16] As a means of protesting the rapidly increasing levels of violence in the globe, she saw Klondike as a film "dedicated to all women" and emphasized the significance of presenting a "female perspective" on the conflict.