Montlevich was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a mine engineer. The family soon moved to Ukraine, where her father received a position at Kharkiv Mining and Industrial Institute. Montlevich graduated from Kharkiv Institute of Engineering and Construction in 1934, moving to work as an architect at Dipromisto (State Scientific-Research Institute of Urban Design), the Pivdeniproshakht (Southern State Institute of Mine Design), and the Southern Railways Department. She spent the second world war working as an architect in Sverdlovsk (today Ekaterinburg) and Tashkent. After Kharkiv was regained by the Soviet Union in 1943, Monlevich returned to the city, where she taught at the Kharkiv Institute of Engineering and Construction and at the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Construction Engineering. Beginning in 1945 and until her retirement in 1980, she worked at the Kharkiv branch of the Mistobudproekt Institute.

Among her projects are the “socialist town” New Kharkiv (the village of Kharkiv Tractor Plant), with Anton Matorin, 1948-51; dormitory of Zaporizhstal factory, Zaporizhia (with Anton Matorin); and masterplans for cities Vilnohirsk and Kirovograd.