Born in Saint Petersburg,[1] she competing in national long jump competitions as a teenager and cleared a personal best of 6.18 m (20 ft 3+1⁄4 in) in 2007.
That year she won the Russian junior athletics indoor championships and was runner-up at the outdoor meeting.
[2] The 2013 season also had mixed fortunes for Biryukova: she set several personal bests (7.50 for the 60 metres, 6.76 m (22 ft 2 in) in the long jump, 13.96 m (45 ft 9+1⁄2 in) in the triple jump) and placed third at the Russian indoor championships, but did not get past the qualifying of the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her only outing for Russia that year.
She cleared a world-leading mark of 6.98 m (22 ft 10+3⁄4 in) at the Moscow Christmas Cup, beating the reigning European indoor champion Darya Klishina.
[3] She matched that jump at the Volgograd Governor Cup later that January to beat Tatyana Lebedeva's meeting record.