Alexandra Petushkova is known as a character in Sergey Gerasimov’s film Love of Mankind (1972), where she (played by Tamara Makarova) is shown as the head of a studio at Moscow Institute of Architecture and an architect of the House of New Everyday Life (Moscow, 1965-1971). Alongside Natan Osterman (head of the design team), I. Kanaeva, G. Konstantinovsky, and G. Karlsen, Petushkova was indeed an architect of this celebrated experimental building. 

A 1968 article in Arkhitektura SSSR mentions Petrushkova as one of the prominent female architects who contributed to the design of residential and public buildings (Shishkina, 1968).

It is also known that in the late 1950s, Petushkova participated in the design of milestone Cheremushki microdistrict–the first, experimental and model microdistrict in the country–another project headed by Osterman. The standardized building type developed by Petushkova, the house from ceramsite-concrete panels II-05, proved to offer the optimal solution and was replicated throughout Cheremushki (Erofeev 2016).