In her childhood Zoya wanted to be a teacher of Russian and Russian literature, She was dreaming about it before entering the Drama Institute. She spent almost all her life in Minsk. She wasn't there only a few years. First, when there was an evacuation during the Great Patriotic war and to years after it. She spent a few years after graduation in Grodno working in drama theatre there.
She is an Honoured Artist of BSSR,