At the start of 2011 she competed on the global circuit for the first time and placed fourth at the Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar. Her best throw that season came in the final of the Russian Championships, where her mark of left her again runner-up to Lysenko. Having opted for post-graduate study, she was eligible for the 2011 Summer Universiade and had her best finish at the games by coming sixth overall. Kondratyeva cleared seventy metres on numerous occasions in 2012, although improved national depth meant she did not place much higher: she had a best of in Moscow in June, but her mark of at the Russian Championships left her in fifth place. She ranked twentieth in the world that year internationally.