In 1907, Vedeneyeva entered the Chemical Department of the Bestuzhev Courses and graduated in 1912-13, receiving her degree from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1912 and passing her examination at Moscow University in 1913. In 1914, she began teaching and conducting research in the Bestuzhev Courses, which would later merge with Second Moscow State University and at the Institute of Fine Chemical Technology. In 1915, she enrolled in the Mathematics Department and passed her examination in 1916. She continued teaching first chemistry, then courses on atomic matter, radioactivity and pedagogy until 1919 at Second University. In that year, she divorced Sirotinsky and went on holiday with Eugenia Avramenko (Russian : Евгении Ивановны Авраменко) to Nikolaev again, where her son was living. Unable to return to Moscow because of Anton Denikin 's offensive against the city, she and Avramenko proceeded Avramenko's home town and found employment working in Women's Gymnasium in Melitopol for the next two years.