Born in Tcheboksary.
Graduated from Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Prof. Natalie Dudinskaya) in 1989 and joined the Mariinsky Theatre.
Became First soloist in 1995.

Honoured Artist of Russia (2003).

Repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Sylphide);
Giselle (Giselle/ Peasant‘s Pas de Deux);
Swan Lake (Pas de Trois);
Nutcracker (Masha/ Pas de Trois);
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria);
La Bayadиre (Gamsatti/ Pas de Trois from the scene "The Kingdom of Shades");
Don Quixote (Lady Dryad/ Flower girl/ Street dancer);
Le Corsaire (Gulnarah/ Pas de Trois);
Raymonda (Clemance/ Pas de Trois from the scene Kingdom of Shades);
The Legend of Love (Shyrin);
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet‘s Friends/ Juliet);
Goya-Divertissement (Painting);
"Paquita" Grand Pas (variation);
The Fairy Doll (The Fairy Doll);
Pas de Six "La Vivandiere";
MacMillan‘s Manon (Lescaut‘s Mistress);
Sergeev‘s The Sleeping Beauty (La Fee Violent/ Princess Aurora/ Princess Florine), Cinderella (Zluka);
Fokine‘s Chopiniana (Mazurka/ Valse in C Sharp minor/ Valse in G flat major), Petrushka (the Ballerina);
Balanchine‘s Apollo (Polyhymnia), Symphony in C (I part);
Alexei Ratmansky‘s Cinderella (Khudyshka).