She has worked in Kiev, Donetsk, Novosibirsk, Moscow and Leningrad, where she wrote and directed a host of films and television programs. Larisa's films Northern Sketches, Leningrad Ballet and Alice recieved awards at the All-Union Festivals,while others, namely The Song Of Igor's Campaign and The Heart Of Polichinelle were banned and destroyed by censorship. Bringing dramatic intensity into documentary works, bold visual experimentation in soundstage-based programs and fusing into an organic unity the genres considered incompatible, became her trademark. In 1994-95 Larisa and her husband Leonid visited their native Ukraine and shot an hour-long documentary There is a Ukraine beyond Chernobyl, acquired and transmitted by the Italian national network RAI and Orbite 2000 satellite network.