Zoya Nikiforovna is the People's Master of Russia, the Winner of the Okrug contests, and participant of international, national, regional festivals and exhibitions of decorative and applied art. She is the Honored Worker of Culture of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, the Winner of the Governor's Award of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra (2010). She lives in Khanty-Mansiysk and works as a senior researcher at the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum «Torum Maa».