Lyudmila Zhloba (nee name unknown) was born in Novosibisk, Russia, in 1947 and graduated from Novosibirsk Institute of Engineering and Construction in 1971. She employed at the Office of Technical Aesthetics of the Factory of Low-Voltage Devices in 1968-1969 and at Kemerovograzhdanproekt institute in Kemerovo between 1970 and 1973. In 1973, she moved to Minsk, where she was employed at Minskpraekt, rising to the head of architects’ group. In 1999, she became the head of architecture and design department and head architect of projects at Gararkhbyuro (City Office of Architecture), in 2007-2010 she was an expert at Dzyarzhbudekspertyza in Minsk. Zhloba is married to Belarusian architect and landscape architect Mikalay Zhloba.

While in Kemerovo, Zhloba participated in the planning of microdistric Tyrgan (1970-1972) in Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region, and the design of buildings in its center (1973).

In Minsk, she participated in the reconstruction of the Gorky Children Park (1975) and of landscape planning of the eastern part of Minsk within the project of Slyapin water and park crescent (1975-1989). For the latter project, Zhloba (with other Minskpraekt architects Mikalay Zhloba, Vasilisa Shylnikouskaya, Dzmitry Gershchanka (son of Lyubov Usava), Barys Yurtsin, and engineer Alyaksandr Samonchyk) was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in architecture in 1989.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Zhloba designed the square of the Moscow Bus Depot (1990), the project for the reconstruction of the park in Nyasvizhi (1990, with others), projects for embankments of Slislach river, reconstructions of the campus of Belarusian Techincal University and of the territory of the Administration of the President of Belarus, and, as a co-author, of the memorial to the victims of Nyamiza tragedy (stampede at a subway station 1999, which resulted in multiple deaths).