Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An haife shi a Meglevo, Imeni Sverdlova, Stepanova ya fara gasar kasa da kasa a 1978 a gasar
Gasar Zakarun Turai a Prague inda ta gama ta shida a zagayen karshe. A waccan shekarar tana da PB na sakan 56.19 a tseren shinge na mita 400. A shekarar 1979 ta karya tarihin duniya a karon farko, tana gudu da dakika 54.78 a Spartakiad na Soviet, inda ta kayar da tsohon mai rike da tarihin duniya Tatyana Zelentsova.