She has recorded ten studio albums, and received several Golden Gramophone Award, and diplomas of the Pesnya goda Russian TV festival.

As an actress, Zara is known for her roles in the "Streets of Broken Lights" (2001), "Spetsnaz 2" (2004), and "Favorsky" (2005) TV series, and the feature films "Pushkin.

In 1995, at the age of 12, Zara met musician and composer Oleg Kvasha, and in 1996, they recorded the songs "The Heart of Juliette", "Just Today", "Right Now…" and "Lullaby (Bye-Bye-Bye)", which got rotations on radio stations, and brought the first fame to the singer.

In 1997, at the age of 14, Zara became a finalist of the Morning Star TV contest (Moscow) with "The Heart of Juliette", and won the Grand Prix of the Let the Children Laugh International Festival (Cairo and Port Said, Egypt).

During her studies, Zara acted in "The Voices of the Age Gone By", "The Idiot", and "Heavenly Swallows" plays on the stage of the Student Theater on Mokhovaya Street.

On 24 November 2016, she held a solo concert at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow dedicated to the 20th anniversary of her artistic career.

Nikolay Baskov, Stas Mikhailov, Dmitry Pevtsov, Victor Drobysh, and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, with whom Zara sang La Grande Storia duet, also took part in the event.

[6] At Zara's solo concert in the State Kremlin Palace on 14 October 2017, French singer Mireille Mathieu performed; together they sang a song "Under the Paris sky".

[11] On 27 December 2017, Zara arrived in Syria for the third time to the Khmeimim (air base), where she performed for Russian officers with the group of artists.

She supported the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Presidential Administration of Russia put her on the list of singers who were recommended to be invited to state-sponsored events.

[14] Zara also takes part in multiple charity projects by the Answering the Call of the Heart Foundation helping visually impaired children established by pop singer and social activist Diana Gurtskaya.

Since 2010, the singer performs at the White Cane Annual Charity Festival aiming to support the rehabilitation of visually impaired young children and adults.