Biography
Yelena Kamenskaya was born in Biryusinsk, Irkutsk Region, in a working family. She has a younger sister. After school, Yelena studied at a colleage for microbiology. For 15 years she renovated apartments, and since 2016 she has been working as a controller-cashier for a water company.
Yelena has two sons and is divorced. 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 was and how it helps raise children," the believer said. In July 1996, she was baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
When the sons started college in Kansk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Yelena moved there to support them. In her spare time, she likes to do handicrafts and make home preserves.
The criminal prosecution had a negative effect on Yelena's emotional and physical well-being. She said: "After everything I have been through, I am under constant stress, which is why I cannot work at full strength... The accounts where I received my salary were blocked, and my health also deteriorated." Relatives, including Yelena's mother, are worried about her.