He graduated from the Makarov School and is credited as the creator of Soviet gas turbine installations[citation needed] and worked at the Institute of the Navy until his death.

Her grandfather Sholom Rosenberg (1887-1942) was awarded the St. George Cross for bravery in the First World War and was killed during the siege of Leningrad.

Her mother Natalia Dmitriyeva (born in 1931) is a candidate of economic sciences, graduate of the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport, and a student of the Nobel laureate Leonid Kantorovich.

She has submitted for consideration to the State Duma a package of bills targeting an improvement of the social status of the poorest part of the Russian population.

In 2000, she achieved the law on granting the status of a WWII participant to persons awarded with the medal "For the Defence of Leningrad".

In particular, it was proposed to index the pension in accordance with the growth of wages, to increase the ratio of the individual wage to the national average, to restore the so-called "non-insurance periods", grant the right to receive a second pension to the workers of the home front, prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, as well as war veterans who do not have a disability.

She was the author of alternative draft budgets of the Russian Federation for 2009, 2010 and 2011, 2012, 2013, which the Just Russia fraction introduced to the State Duma simultaneously with the governmental projects.

[5] Furthermore, she was the main political opponent to the Governor of Saint Petersburg, and later to the senator and Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matvienko.

Also, the husband of Oksana Dmitriyeva, Ivan Grachev, was removed from the post of chairman of the State Duma committee on energy.

[13] At the simultaneous elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the list of the Party of Growth, headed by Oksana Dmitriyeva, received 10.7% of all votes.

[14] In July 2017, Oksana Dmitriyeva began to participate in the primaries of the Party of Growth, for the selection of a presidential candidate in the 2018 election.

[15] In September 2021 Dmitriyeva was elected member of the 8th State Duma in the South East constituency of Saint Petersburg, earning 34.91% of the vote.