[1] Tatiana Alekseevna Dobrolyubova was born in 1891 in Nizhegorod Province in the Russian Empire.
She completed gymnasium in 1909 and was awarded a first-class diploma from the Moscow Higher Women's Courses in 1915.
She trained as a teacher at the University of Moscow from 1920 and then became an assistant professor of geology there in January 1922.
Two years later Dobrolyubova transferred to the Paleontological Institute and remained there until her death in 1972.
[3] Although lacking in formal graduate-level education, she was awarded the Candidate of Sciences degree without a dissertation after the director of the Institute, Alexei Borisyak, called her "the best specialist on Carboniferous Rugosa in the Soviet Union.