Born in Kishinev in the family of a serviceman. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (4.10.1983). People's Artist of the RSFSR (20.05.1991). Before entering the V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio, she worked as a computer center operator, a fitter-assembler at ZIL, and a laboratory assistant at the Kishinev Agricultural Institute. In 1973 she graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio (course of Professor V.P. Markov) and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. Her first role was in M.A. Bulgakov's play 'The Last Days', where her partners were the famous Anatoly Ktorov and Viktor Stanitsyn. Since 1976 she has been an actress of the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky (since 1992 - named after G.A.

Tovstonogov). She performs in philharmonic and concert halls of Russia with various poetic programs. Her repertoire includes E. Baratynsky, A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, F. Tyutchev, I. Bunin, I. Brodsky, D. Samoilov, A. Akhmatova, M. Tsvetaeva, M. Petrovych. From 1998 to 2002 she was a professor and master of the acting course at the St. Petersburg University of Trade Unions (department of Professor Z.Ya. Korogodsky). In 2003, on the basis of the course graduates, the 'Theater-Studio under the direction of Svetlana Kryuchkova' was created. She made her film debut in 1973. In 2008-2010, on the St. Petersburg Fifth Channel, she hosted the adult TV game 'To the Blackboard!' (idea by Lev Lurie).