She graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University.

Her first rhymes were reminiscent of Yevtushenko, Okudzhava, Voznesensky and Rozhdestvensky and were first published in 1955.

Her first poetry collection, Let's Meet in the East (Russian: Встретимся на Востоке), was published in 1958.

She also held the position of First Secretary of the Moscow Union of Writers.

[1] She died at age 76 at a medical sanatorium in Yudino village of Moscow Oblast, Russia on 19 May 2008.