Yelena

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Yelena (german translation Jelena) is a feminine given name. It is the Russian form of Helen. (Mainly used in Russia but also in Belarussia, Ukraine, Serbia and Latvia)

Notable people called Yelena

Yelena Afanasyeva (born 1967), former Russian athlete who competed in the 800 metres

Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva (born 1975), member of the State Duma of Russia

Yelena Akhaminova, former volleyball player for the Soviet Union

Yelena Andreevna, play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov

Yelena Andreyuk, former volleyball player for the USSR

Yelena Antonova (rower) (born 1952), rower from the Soviet Union

Yelena Arshintseva (born 1971), retired female race walker from Russia

Yelena Azarova (born 1973), Russian Synchro-swimmer

Yelena Baranova (born 1972), Russian professional basketball player

Yelena Baturina (born 1963), Russian oligarch, Russia's richest woman

Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina (1882–1951), Russian pianist, composer and teacher

Yelena Belevskaya (born 1963), retired athlete who represented the USSR until 1991 and Belarus since 1992

Yelena Belova (biathlete) (born 1965), Russian former biathlete who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics

Yelena Belyakova (born 1976), former pole vaulter from Russia

Yelena Bet (born 1976), Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-2000s

Yelena Bolsun (born 1983), Russian female sprint athlete

Yelena Bondarchuk (1962–2009), Soviet and Russian stage and film actress

Yelena Bonner (1923–2011), human rights activist in the former Soviet Union, wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Yelena Burukhina (born 1977), former Russian cross country skier who has competed since 1996

Yelena Leonova (born 1973), former Soviet pair skater

Yelena Chernykh (1979–2011), Russian theatre actress

Yelena Churakova (born 1986), Russian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles

Yelena Prokopcuka (born 1976), Latvian long-distance runner, won the New York City Marathon in 2005 and 2006

Yelena Smurova (born 1974), Russian water polo player, who won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Yelena Soboleva (born 1982), Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres

Yelena Davydova (born 1961), former Soviet gymnast

Yelena Dembo (born 1983), Greek International Master of chess

Yelena Dendeberova (born 1969), former medley swimmer from the Soviet Union, Olympic silver medallist

Yelena Dmitriyeva (born 1983), Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team

Yelena Drapeko (born 1948), Russian actress

Yelena Dudina, Soviet sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1980s

Yelena Glikina (born 1969), Soviet fencer

Yelena Godina (born 1977), Russian volleyball player

Yelena Gorchakova (1933–2002), Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw event

Yelena Grishina (born 1968), Soviet fencer

Yelena Gruzinova (born 1967), retired female race walker from Russia

Yelena Gulyayeva, née Rodina (born 1967), retired Russian high jumper

Yelena Guryeva (born 1958), field hockey player and Olympic medalist

Yelena Ilyukhina (born 1982), Kazakhstani handball player

Yelena Isinbayeva (born 1982), Russian pole vaulter

Yelena Jemayeva (born 1971), Azerbaijani fencer

Yelena Sokolova (long jumper) (born 1986), Russian long jumper

Yelena Kashcheyeva (born 1973), Kazakhstani long jumper

Yelena Khanga (born 1961), author of Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family: 1865 - 1992

Yelena Khloptseva (born 1960), Russian rower and Olympic champion

Yelena Kondakova (born 1957), the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space

Yelena Konevtseva (born 1981), female hammer thrower from Russia

Yelena Konshina (born 1950), Russian composer and music educator

Yelena Korban (born 1961), retired track and field sprinter from the Soviet Union

Yelena Koreneva (born 1953), Russian actress

Yelena Krivoshey (born 1977), Russian gymnast

Yelena Kruglova (born 1962), former Soviet swimmer

Yelena Ksenofontova (born 1972), Russian stage and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia (2006)

Yelena Kurzina (born 1960), Belarusian slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s

Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina (1909–1979), Soviet actress

Yelena Kuznetsova (born 1977), female race walker from Kazakhstan

Yelena Lanskaya, American film director, producer and editor

Yelena Lebedenko (born 1971), retired Russian heptathlete and triple jumper

Yelena Lebedeva (born 1977), Uzbekistani sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s

Yelena Leuchanka (born 1983), Belarusian professional women's basketball player

Yelena Maglevannaya (born 1981), Russian free-lance journalist for the newspaper Svobodnoye Slovo, Free Speech, in Volgograd

Yelena Masyuk (born 1966), Russian television journalist, covered the First and Second Chechen Wars and her 1997 abduction

Yelena Matiyevskaya (born 1961), Russian former rower who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics

Yelena Melnikova (born 1971), Russian former biathlete who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics

Yelena Migunova (born 1984), in Kazan is a Russian sprint athlete

Yelena Mikulich (born 1977), Belarus rower

Yelena Miroshina (1974–1995), female diver from Russia

Yelena Motalova (born 1971), long-distance runner from Russia

Yelena Nechayeva (born 1979), Russian fencer

Yelena Nikolayeva (born 1966), Russian race walker

Yelena Nikolayeva (journalist) (born 1985)

Yelena Ovchinnikova (born 1982), Russian competitor in synchronized swimming

Yelena Alexandrovna Panova, often Elena Panova (born 1979), professional female bodybuilder from Voronezh, Russia

Yelena Viktorovna Panova also Elena Panova (born 1977), Russian actress from Arkhangelsk

Yelena Parfenova (born 1974), Kazakhstani triple jumper

Yelena Partova (born 1985), Kazakhstani handball player

Yelena Pavlova (born 1978), female volleyball player from Kazakhstan

Yelena Pershina (born 1963), retired female long jumper from Kazakhstan

Yelena Petrova (born 1966), Russian former judoka who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics

Yelena Petushkova (1940–2007), Russian and former Soviet equestrian who won three Olympic medals

Yelena Plotnikova (born 1978), female volleyball player from Russia

Yelena Polenova (1850–1898), Russian painter and designer, sister of Vasily Polenov

Yelena Posevina (born 1986), Russian gymnast and Olympic champion

Yelena Priyma (born 1983), female hammer thrower from Russia

Yelena Produnova, also known as Elena, (born 1980), female Russian gymnast

Yelena Prokhorova (born 1978), Russian heptathlete who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Yelena Romanova (1963–2007), Russian middle distance runner

Yelena Rudkovskaya (born 1973), Belarusian swimmer and Olympic champion

Yelena Sokolova (long-distance runner) (born 1979), Russian long-distance runner

Yelena Ruzina (born 1964), retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres

Yelena Safonova (born 1956), Russian actress

Yelena Sayko (born 1967), retired female race walker from Russia

Yelena Shalamova (born 1982), Russian rhythmic gymnast

Yelena Shalygina (born 1986), Kazakh wrestler

Yelena Shubina (born 1974), Russian former swimmer who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics

Yelena Shushunova (born 1969), Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion

Yelena Sidorchenkova (born 1980), Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase

Yelena Sipatova (born 1955), retired long-distance runner from the Soviet Union

Yelena Skrynnik, First female Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation between March 2009 and May 2012

Yelena Slesarenko, née Sivushenko (born 1982), Russian high jumper

Yelena Soboleva (born 1982), Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres

Yelena Solovey (born 1947), Soviet film actress

Yelena Soya, Russian Synchro-swimmer

Yelena Suyazova (born 1989), team handball player from Kazakhstan

Yelena Svezhentseva (born 1968), retired female javelin thrower from Uzbekistan

Yelena Antonova (synchronized swimmer) (born 1974), Russian Synchro-swimmer

Yelena Taranova (born 1961), Azerbaijani paralympic sport shooter, silver medalist of 2000 Summer Paralympics

Yelena Tereshina (born 1959), Soviet rower

Yelena Terleyeva (born 1985), USSR) Russian singer, best known for her hit "Solntse"

Yelena Tissina (born 1977), Russian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s

Yelena Tregubova (born 1973), Russian journalist, a critic of the president Vladimir Putin and his environment

Yelena Tripolski (born 1967), Israeli Olympic sport shooter

Yelena Trofimenko (born 1964), Belorussian film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actress, poet

Yelena Tyurina (born 1971), retired female volleyball player from Russia

Yelena Välbe, née Trubitsyna (born 1968), Russian former cross-country skier

Yelena Vasilevskaya (born 1978), Russian volleyball player

Yelena Vinogradova (born 1964), female track and field athlete who represented the Soviet Union

Yelena Volkova (swimmer) (born 1968), Soviet swimmer and world champion

Yelena Volkova (volleyball) (born 1960), former Soviet volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist

Yelena Yefimova (born 1948), Russian artist and sculptor and a member of the National Association of Art crafts and Guild masters

Yelena Yelesina (born 1970), female high jumper from Russia

Yelena Yemchuk (born 1970), professional photographer, painter and film director, known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins

Yelena Yudina (born 1988), Russia skeleton racer who has been competing since 2005

Yelena Zadorozhnaya (born 1977), Russian runner who specializes in the 3000, 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase

Yelena Zakharova (born 1975), Russian actress

Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova (born 1960), retired female track and field athlete from Ukraine

References

Yelena Wikipedia

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