Born on 3 September 1955 in Petrozavodsk. She is Finn. After graduating school, in 1972-1974 she worked as secretary of Petrozavodsky city court. In 1974, she enrolled into a law school of Leningrad State University, which she graduated in 1979. In February 1997, she graduated the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration with a degree in Management. In 1979-1981, she had been working as a notary of the First Petrozavodsky state notary public office. In 1981-1990 she was a judge at the Oktyabrsky District Court of Petrozavodsk. Since 1990 she was a specialist, and then a head of department of the Ministry of Justice in Karelia. In 1992 - 1994 she was Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Karelia. In 1993, she participated as an expert in the Constitutional Commission which developed the draft Constitution of the Russian Federation. In October - November 1993 she was a representative of the working group for modification of the draft and spoke to the press explaining its provisions. In November 1993, at the constitutive congress of the Union of Lawyers of Republic of Karelia she was elected its Chairman. She left this position after being elected to the Constitutional Court of the Republic. In November 1994, she was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Karelia. At the constitutive meeting of the Constitutional Court, she was elected Judge-secretary of the Constitutional Court of the Republic. In parallel she was involved into teaching at the law faculty of the Petrozavodsk State University and Karelian branch of the North-West Academy of Public Administration. On 11 June 1997, she was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. She specialises primarily in labour and state law. Speaks English. Lawyer Emeritus of the Republic of Karelia (1996), Lawyer Emeritus of the Russian Federation (2006). Awarded the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation (2011), the Order of Friendship (2015) and the Order of Honor (2021).