[2] In 1929, she graduated with a diploma in chemistry from the Moscow State University and moved to Kirghizstan to work in Tyuya-Muyun deposits in 1931.

[2] Working under Irène Joliot-Curie, she published a paper in 1937 in Journal de Physique: '"Estimation of the ratio uranium-238/uranium-235 in U-Y".

[2] On the recommendation of her mentor Vitaly Khlopin, she was sent to work at State Institute of Rare Metals and was appointed head of the radium laboratory but this was short-lived since she was evacuated to Kazakhstan with her family when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.

[2] Eventually, the Soviet State Defense Committee did create the Institute of Special Materials (later NII-9, the A. Bochvar All-Russian Research Institute of Inorganic Materials or VNIINM), that overtook the research work from the German nuclear physicists working in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons.

[3] In 1947, the Russian F-1 reactor was able to produce the ingots of irradiated uranium which was extracted into the plutonium from the pilot factory, the Mayak.

With B.V. Petrov she developed a 'dry' process, vacuum distillation of polonium from irradiated melted bismuth, which was safer and more efficient.

Her laboratories produced polonium products for electric current generators in communications satellites (Kosmos-84 and Kosmos-90 in 1965) and three thermal blocks (in 1968, 1970 and 1972) for the moon rovers Lunokhod-1 and Lunokhod-2.