Oleksandra is a historian, a chief research fellow of the Museum of Kyiv City History. She presented her Candidate thesis in 2016. She is author of the book ‘Stone Guest: Monuments to Lenin in Central Ukraine’ ("Кам’яний гість: пам’ятники Леніну в Центральній Україні"), currently in print in the ‘Laurus’ publishing house. The book is written on the basis of the thesis and covers the topics of the policy of memory on such a controversial object of Soviet heritage as monuments to Lenin. In September and December, 2016 was awarded the Center's Research Grant. In Lviv, she works on "Everyday Practices and Identity of Engineering Intelligentsia of Ukrainian SSR in the Late Socialism."