Bourchtein received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the
Far Eastern Federal University in
Vladivostok in 1960, and continued to work at Far Eastern Federal University for 34 years as an assistant, associate, and full professor. Meanwhile, she earned a doctorate through
Saint Petersburg State University in 1968, with a dissertation on the solution of
functional equations for
complex analytic functions on the
unit circle. She joined the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil in 1997, as an associate professor and later as a full professor, retired in 2010 and was named a professor emerita in 2019. At the Federal University of Pelotas, one of her students was
Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, who credits Bourchtein as being her first female role model in mathematics. ==Books==