She graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages ??at Moscow State University in 1971. Doctor of Philology (12/09/1988). Theme of the dissertation "Formation and development of drama in Urdu". Member of the Russian Society of Orientalists, Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences "History of World Culture", Union of Artists of the Russian Federation, International Center for Urdu (London). Completing the monograph "Under the green dome: the tombs of the saints in India and Pakistan." Supervises the collective work "The study of literature of the East: Russia, the twentieth century." He lectures on Islam in South Asia at the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University.