She was part of Viktor Chegin's training group, which was connected to numerous doping cases in Russia.

Initially working with coach Vadim Kabanov she later moved to Viktor Chegin's group, which featured many national level walkers.

[4] As a result, she was chosen for the Russian team for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, where she finished 17th (later upgraded to 14th).

[2] Mineyeva finished ninth at the Russian Winter Championships at the start of 2012 but missed the rest of the season, which closed with a two-year doping ban due to abnormal haemoglobin levels in her blood sample.

[6] By the time of her return to the sport in 2015, doping in Russia had built into a problem so large that her country was banned from international competition at the end of the year.