She started skating as single skater and represented the club of Dynamo in the 1930s.

Her husband Alexander Tolmachev headed the Moscow department of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia.

Since 1946, Tolmachova worked as a figure skating coach at the Young Pioneers Stadium school in Moscow, established with her help.

Among her pupils were Vladimir Kovalev, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Galina Kuhar, Alexander Vedenin, Tatiana Nemtsova, Elena Sheglova, Sergei Chetverukhin, Valentin Piseev.

[3][4][5] Her brother Valentin Granatkin was a football, ice hockey and bandy player.