As she got a little older, she began to realize that life wasn't easy for her parents. Neither of them earned high salaries, and keeping all the bills paid was sometimes a struggle. Lukyanova didn't want that for herself.
In her teens, though, she thought the route to the top was through education. She studied hard, moved to Odesa in Ukraine, and graduated with a qualification in architecture. Soon after that, she accepted a job in Moscow and seemed to have a career plan sorted out.