Ekaterina Kugayevskaya was born in Biysk. In 2025, she graduated from the Novosibirsk State Choreographic College (class of Tatiana Konstantinovna Kapustina, Honored Artist of the RSFSR).
In 2021, 2022 and 2023, she took master classes as part of Choreography: Classical Dance (Ballet) Program at the Sirius Educational Center.
Since July 2025, Ekaterina Kugayevskaya has been an artist of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.