I was born in the town of Plast, Chelyabinsk Oblast. I currently have the status of a rehabilitated person. I grew up in the family of a miner and a housewife in Kazakhstan, graduated from the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute, got married and gave birth to two children. In 1991 our family moved to Ukraine, to the town of Balta in the Odesa region, where I still live today. While living in Balta, I brought my parents from Kazakhstan to Ukraine, and they later passed away here. My husband died in 2017 of gangrene caused by diabetes. I took care of my brother, who had been disabled since childhood; he passed away in 2021.