After becoming Miss Krasnodar 2008, she went on, wearing a sash bearing the name of her home region of Krasnodarskiy kray, to become the "Pervaya vitse-miss" ("1st Runner-up") in the "Miss Rossiya" ("Miss Russia") pageant in 2009. She participated in the "Miss Rossiya" pageant again in 2011, where one of her competitors was Alesya Aleksandrova, who at that time was her fellow blondinka from the group Mobilnye Blondinki.