Background
Shevtsova was born in 1969 in Kozelsk, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Shevtsova was born in 1969 in Kozelsk, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
She attended and later graduated from Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics in 1991.
From that year on she worked as a tax collector for the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation. Since August 4, 2010 works as Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation under Presidential Decree. Journal Forbes included her to the list of the top richest siloviki of Russia (13th place in 2013).