She was born on May 29, 1940 in Odessa - hydrobiologist, doctor of biology. Sciences (2001), Professor, Laureate of the State Prize in Science and Technology. (2013). She graduated from ODU named after II Mechnikov (1962), where she worked as a M.Sc. (Department of Hydrobiology). From 1973 to the present - an employee of the Institute of Marine Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since 1989 she has been the head of the department of ecology of regional communities for 29 years. Part-time from 2002 to 2007 - Professor of Hydrobiology, OSU named after II Mechnikov. The main scientific direction is biology and ecology of marine meiobenthos. Author of 194 scientific publications (including co-author of 14 monographs, and author of one personal).