 In 1970 she defended her thesis on the topic "The creative path of the Egyptian novelist Yusuf Idris", and in 1987 became a doctor of philological sciences.In 1974 she joined the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where she worked as a professor in the Department of Asian literature until her death in 2015.She also sat on the dissertation council of the Academy's Gorky Institute of World Literature.