Born in 1923 or 1924 in the city Zaporozhye. Before the war, she worked at a factory in Zaporozhye. With the outbreak of war and the onset of German troops, — evacuated to the Urals with her mother, sister and brother.
In the ranks of the Red Army was called by the Cheborkul district military enlistment office. In December 1942, she graduated with honors from the Women's School of Snipers, and when graduating from Alexander, on behalf of the Central Committee of the VLKSM, a personal snier