Elena Fedorovna Chernusskih | Елена Федоровна Чернусских

Born on December 7, 1944 in Moscow, Russia, Elena, or Lena, grew up in the company of her mother Valentina Dmitrievskaya and younger sister Valentina Makkaveeva. Her father was absent for the most part of her life but was known to most as Fedor Chernusskih. Lena remained single all of her life and graduated from the Moscow State Mining University in 1968, working as a mathematician until 1990s. She loved gardening, knitting, animals, loved reading, and had a lot of books in her small Moscow apartment. She died from sudden heart failure on April 23, 2019.