[2][4] Zacharova became employed at the Laminated Plastics Plant of the Ministry of the Chemical Industry (today Sloplast LLC) in 1951 and worked at its workshop for the following 33 years.
[2] To start the seventh five-year plan lasting from 1959 to 1965, the plant with Zacharova's participation finished a special government task and mastered a new product type.
[2] The ninth five-year plan from 1971 to 1975 saw her team introduce the Shchekino method that freed 50 per cent of the apparatchiks while raising the volume output by one-and-a-half times within three years.
The tenth five-year plan lasting 1976 to 1980 saw the laminated plant commence reconstruction and workers studied the construction of new equipment according to drawings and passed examinations.
[5] She is a member of the board of the Cuba-Russia society, is a worker in the section of Heroes of Socialist Labour at the Interregional City of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region of the All-Russian Public Organization of Veterans of War, Labor, Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.