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Yelena
Yelena or Jelena is a feminine given name. It is the Russian form of Helen, written Елена in Russian. Notable people called Yelena * Yelena Afanasyeva (athlete) (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 US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Andreevna
''Uncle Vanya'' ( rus, Дя́дя Ва́ня, r=Dyádya Ványa, p=ˈdʲædʲə ˈvanʲə) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897, and first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate of the professor's late first wife that now supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, suffers from her unrequited feelings for Astrov. Matters are brought to a crisis when the professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sonya's home, with a view to investing the proceeds to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Baturina
Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina (; born 8 March 1963) is an international billionaire businesswoman and a philanthropist of Russian origin. She is based in Austria. She was married to Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (from 1992 to 2010), until his death in 2019. In 1991, she founded Inteco, an investment and construction company. According to ''Forbes'', with a fortune of $1.2 billion, she was the richest woman in Russia, until Tatyana Bakalchuk overtook her spot in February 2020 with $1.4 billion. As of 2024, Baturina ranks 2,287th on the Forbes Billionaires List with a net worth of $1.3 billion. Her sources of wealth are listed as “investments, real estate, self-made.” She holds the 100th position among Russian billionaires and ranks 4th among the wealthiest women in Russia. Biography Baturina is a Moscow native who began working as a design-technician at the (where her parents worked) after graduating from high school. * 1980–1982: the Frazer plant, technician-designer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Bonner
Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner (; 15 February 1923 – 18 June 2011) was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage. Biography Early life and education Lusik Georgiyevna Alikhanova was born in Merv, Turkestan ASSR, Soviet Union (now Mary, Turkmenistan). She was born to Ruf "Ruth" Bonner, a Jewish communist activist from Siberia, and Levon Kacharyan, an Armenian. Her father died a year after her birth, and her mother remarried to Gevork Alikhanyan, founding First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia and a Comintern executive. She had a younger brother, Igor, who became a career naval officer. Her family had a summer dacha in Sestroretsk and Bonner had fond memories there. In 1937, Bonner's father was arrested by the NKVD and executed as part of Stalin's Great Purge; her mother was arrested a few days later as the wife of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Dembo
Yelena Dembo (born December 8, 1983) is a Greek chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is also a chess teacher and author. Family background Dembo was born on December 8, 1983, in Penza, Russia. She first began to read when she was two and a half years old and at the age of three years and nine months, played for the first time in a chess tournament among boys under twelve, enabling her to become a rated chess-player. Dembo's mother Nadezhda Fokina is a USSR Master of Sports in chess, a linguist, chess journalist and trainer. In the past she won gold and silver medals in the USSR Chess Championships and was Russian Champion at 'Under 20' level in 1967. She also played for Israel at the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila, Philippines. Dembo's father is a professional pianist, who graduated from Leningrad Academy of Music, but is also a chess trainer, journalist and psychologist. He has been her trainer ever since she was three years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Davydova
Yelena Viktorovna Davydova (; born 7 August 1961) is a Russian-Canadian gymnastics coach and judge who competed for the former Soviet Union. She was the women's artistic individual all-around champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She's the owner and head coach at Gemini Gymnastics, a gymnastics club in Oshawa, Ontario. In July 2012, Davydova was one of the coaches of the Canadian Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team. In 2016 Davydova was head floor judge at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In October 2016, she was elected a member of the International Gymnastics Federation's Women Technical Committee. Early life Davydova was born in Voronezh, 500 kilometres south of Moscow, to Victor, a mechanic, and Tamara, an employee at the ''Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Works''. She became interested in gymnastics at age six after seeing on television the famous Soviet Olympic gold medallists Larisa Petrik and Natalia Kuchinskaya. She wanted to be enrolled in '' Spartak'' Gymnastics scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Bondarchuk
Yelena Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (; 31 July 1962 – 7 November 2009) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. Biography She was one of three children born to actors Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994, died from heart attack) and Irina Skobtseva (1927–2020). Her half-sister is actress Natalya Bondarchuk and her younger brother is the actor Fyodor Bondarchuk (born 1967). She had one child, a son, by her marriage to Vitaly Kryukov, which ended in divorce. Death She died of breast cancer on 7 November 2009, aged 47. Filmography References External links * Елена (Алёна) Бондарчук. Биографическая справка {{DEFAULTSORT:Bondarchuk, Yelena 1962 births 2009 deaths Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Actresses from Moscow Yelena Yelena or Jelena is a feminine given name. It is the Russian form of Helen, written Елена in Russian. Notable people called Yelena * Yelena Afanasyeva (athlete) (born 1967), former Russian athlete wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Chernykh
Yelena Chernykh (Cyrillic: Елена Черных) (August 24, 1979 – October 4, 2011) was a Russian theatre actress. She has been called "хрупкая красавица и вместе с тем необычайно выносливая актриса" (a fragile beauty and yet extraordinarily hardy actress). Death The 32-year-old actress was killed in a car crash on 4 October 2011 in Novoanninsky, along with fellow actors, 59-year-old Aleksandr Yegorov and 52-year-old Valentina Yudina. Chernykh and Yegorov, who both died in the same collision, were considered favorite artists of the "Волгоградского музыкально-драматического казачьего театра" (Volgograd Music and Drama Theatre of the Cossack). At the time her death, Yelena was married to Yegor Chernykh, with whom she had one daughter. Theater Her better known theater works include * ''Эй, ты, здравствуй!'' (''Hey, you, hello!'') by Г. Мамлина ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Dmitriyeva
Yelena Viktorovna Dmitriyeva, née Chaplina (; born 1 July 1983 in Astrakhan) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team."Oroszország" ''handball.hu'' – 2007 december 2 (Hungarian) (Retrieved on December 20, 2007) She won gold medals with the Russian winning teams in the and 2009 World Championships. Career Dmitriyeva began playing handball aged 7. At the age of 15 she joined Kazahkstani team Qys ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva
Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva (; born 27 March 1975) is a Russian politician. She was a member of the State Duma between 2003 and 2014. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia group. She attended Orenburg Educational Institute. She was selected to be a senator in the Federation Council from 26 September 2014, representing Orenburg Oblast. Biography Afanasyeva was born 27 March 1975 in Orenburg. In 1997 she graduated from Orenburg State Pedagogical University. In 2007 she graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In 2012 she received a law degree from the Institute of World Civilizations. She is a candidate of Historical Sciences since 2007. Career In 1998 she was elected chairman of the regional branch of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. In 2003 she was appointed assistant to Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (, , né Eidelstein, ; 25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Antonova (rower)
Yelena Petrovna Antonova (born 21 August 1952) is a rower from the Soviet Union. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ..., Canada in the single sculls event where she finished in third place. References External links * 1952 births Russian female rowers Soviet female rowers Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics European Rowing Championships medalists 20th-century Russian sportswomen {{USSR-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Andreyuk
Yelena Valentinovna Andreyuk is a former volleyball player for the USSR who won a gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ... in Moscow, Soviet Union. References External links * Volleybox.net Profile Living people 1958 births Soviet women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics {{USSR-volleyball-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
