She earned a master's degree in physics from Moscow State University in 1953, and completed her doctoral studies there in 1960; her dissertation research, "On the stability of self-oscillatory systems and automatic control systems in the presence of random influences", was written under advisor Sergei Pavlovich Strelkov.

[1] She defended a second dissertation, "Investigation of the dynamic and statistical characteristics of optical quantum generators and amplifiers", in 1972.

[2] Landa joined the faculty of Moscow State University in 1956, and remained there as a researcher and professor until she retired in 2020.

She taught, did research on oscillations, with applications in plasma, lasers, and acoustics, and supervised twelve doctoral students through to the completion of their degrees.

[3][4] She was a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.