Education
She graduated from the Physics-Mathematics Faculty of Yakutsk State University in 1972.
She graduated from the Physics-Mathematics Faculty of Yakutsk State University in 1972.
She served as deputy director and then director of the Yakutsk Department of Education (1988-1996), and then went on to become the Sakha Republic"s Deputy Minister and then Minister of Education (1996-1997. 1997-2002). She was appointed the vice president of the Sakha Republic by decree of President Vyacheslav Shtyrov in 2002. Outside politics she is one of the sponsors of the Sakha-Korean School.