Elena Markova

Elena Vladimirovna Markova (née Ivanova, 1923–2023) was a Soviet and Russian cyberneticist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, gulag convict and memoirist.

Biography Elena Vladimirovna Ivanova was born in Kiev (now in Ukraine) on 24 April 1923, In 1927 the family was exiled to the village of Grishino (now Pokrovsk). Her father, Vladimir Platonovich Ivanov, a teacher of Russian language and literature, was shot in 1937 as "an enemy of the people". and soon the village became occupied by advancing German troops putting many lives in danger. According to her later memoirs, 18-year-old Elena managed to save several dozen wounded soldiers of the Soviet Red Army by taking a job at the German-run labor exchange so she could supply wounded soldiers, hiding with local residents, with forged documents to save them from execution by Germans. She earned her doctorate in 1971 with a thesis titled: Theory and application of combinatorial plans in identification and optimization problems. She was buried at the Domodedovo Cemetery.

Selected works She published 15 monographs, including Experimental Planning under Heterogeneity Conditions (1973, together with A. N. Lisenkov), Combinatorial Plans in Problems of Multifactorial Experiments (1979, together with A. N. Lisenkov), Randomization and Statistical Inference (1986, together with A. A. Maslak). She also authored several memoirs about camp reality such as, Vorkuta Notes of Convict "E-105" and From the Mine to the Stage. Camp Theater in Vorkuta: History of the Vorkuta Musical and Drama Theater.