Biography
Yelena Kamenskaya was born in Biryusinsk, Irkutsk Region, in a family of workers. She has a younger sister. After school, Yelena graduated from a microbiological school. For 15 years she has been engaged in apartment renovation, and since 2016 she has been working as a controller-cashier of a water utility.
Yelena is divorced and has two sons. The family lived in Volgograd for 7 years. There, Yelena met Jehovah's Witnesses and began to study the Bible. "I saw how practical it is and how it helps raise children," the believer said. In July 1996, she was baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
When the sons entered college in Kansk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Yelena moved there to support them. In her spare time, she likes to do handicrafts and home canning.
The criminal prosecution negatively affected Yelena's emotional and physical well-being. She shared: "After everything I have been through, I am under constant stress, which is why I cannot work at full strength . . . The accounts on which I received my salary were arrested, and my health also deteriorated." Relatives, including Yelena's mother, are worried about her.