In 1996 she graduated from the Kaluga College of Music, and in 2001 from the Faculty of History, Theory, and Composition of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (class of Professor Marina A. Engovatova).
From 2002 she studied in postgraduate school at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. In 2008 she defended her PhD thesis «The South‑Smolensk Wedding of the Desna–Sozh Interfluve».
She began her teaching career in children’s music schools and later taught at the Kaluga Regional Taneyev College of Music. Since 2018 she has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.
Since 2009 she has been curator of the collection of the Gippius Centre for Music and Ethnography (formerly the Problem Research Laboratory for the Study of Traditional Musical Cultures).
Her professional research interests focus on folk music, in particular West‑Russian musical traditions. Since 1997 she has carried out regular fieldwork in the Smolensk, Bryansk, Belgorod, and Kaluga regions of Russia and the Vitebsk Region of Belarus.
Since 2013 she has been one of the participants in the project to create the Unified Electronic Catalogue of Objects of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation. Among her main scholarly publications is the scholarly series Smolensky muzykalno‑etnografichesky sbornik, where she is a member of the authorial team.
As a composer Viktoria P. Kalyuzhnaya collaborates with choral ensembles in Kaluga, Saint Petersburg, Ulyanovsk, and Vladivostok, and is a laureate of the All‑Russian Composers’ Competition Choral Laboratory: Twenty‑First Century (Saint Petersburg, 2015).
