In 1945 she married David Yakovlevich Ryvkin (1910-1980), a notable Russian science-fiction writer who wrote under the pseudonym of "David Dar". Together with her husband and his 2 children and her own family she returned to Leningrad. In 1947 she published the novel "Kruzhilikha", translated as "Looking Ahead" (Stalin Prize in 1948), about people working in a Ural factory. She had begun writing the novel in 1944, but had been interrupted by the hospital train assignment. In 1949 she wrote the novel "Yasny Bereg" (Bright Shore; Stalin Prize of 1950) about people working in a kolkhoz.