Economist, Candidate of Economic Sciences. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Kharkiv State University with a specialisation in Statistics. From 1981 to 1997, she worked as Research Associate at the Caucasus Institute of Mineral Resources (Tbilisi) and studied in the postgraduate programme at VIEMS (Moscow). Since 1997, she has been an employee of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Privatisation Department. From 1999 to 2021, she taught courses on agro-industrial economics at Abkhaz State University. In 2010, she defended her dissertation on the topic ‘The Efficiency of Citrus Fruit Production in Abkhazia’ and became Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy. She has researched the life and work of N.N. Smetsky, a patron and scientist who influenced the development of Abkhazia.