Zhanna Dombrovskaya was born in Pyatigorsk. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Svetlana Gorenkova) and the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in 2000. Soloist with the St Petersburg State Musorgsky Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet from 2001–2003. Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2003.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Antonida (A Life for the Tsar)
Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Volkhova (Sadko)
Oxana (Christmas Eve)
the Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)
Podtochina's daughter (The Nose)
Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Norina (Don Pasquale)
Gilda (Rigoletto)
Musetta (La bohиme)
Ascagne (Les Troyens)
Elettra (Idomeneo)
Donna Elvira, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni)
Despina (Cosм fan tutte)
Freia (Das Rheingold in concert)

Repertoire also includes: Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Violetta (La traviata), Donna Anna, Fiordiligi (Cosм fan tutte), Concepciуn (L'Heure espagnole) and the soprano parts in Stravinsky's cantata Les Noces, Orff's Carmina Burana, Bach's Johannespassion and Handel's Judas Maccabaeus.

Zhanna Dombrovskaya has toured to New York (Metropolitan Opera), Rome, Madrid (Orquesta Philharmonic), Moscow (Bolshoi Theatre) and Baden-Baden as well as to cities throughout Germany, South Korea, Italy, Japan and Switzerland. She has taken part in master classes with Renata Scotto (Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, 2004; Operatic Academy of Westchester Conservatoire, New York, 2005). She has a busy concert schedule of solo concerts in cities throughout Russia.