Lyudmila Starostova graduated from the Ural State University, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor.

Head of the Development Department of the Boris Yeltsin Museum, co-director of the Avant-garde Territory project.

Researcher and popularizer of the architectural heritage of Ekaterinburg and the Urals, curator of exhibitions, including the Days of Constructivism in the Urals. Starostova took part in the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (co-curator of the special project of the Biennial, TABOO: Avant-garde Territory. Big Ural), author of the guided tours in Ekaterinburg, organizer of the MZhK-1980 special project (curator of the exhibition What makes us better and co-curator of the mobile exhibition The House That I Built, curator of the public program, curator of the tour program).