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

[1][2] Her mother, Vaclava Mikhailovna Ivanova (née Koribut-Dashkevich (Polish: Korybut-Daszkiewicz)), taught German language and mathematics and was detained in 1938 for a year and a half.

In 1941 during World War II, Elena graduated from tenth grade[2] and soon the village became occupied by advancing German troops putting many lives in danger.

[1] From 1953 to 1960, she remained in the town of Vorkuta, married a fellow camp inmate, Aleksey Alekseyevich Markov, and graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute.

In 1961–1981, she worked at the Scientific Council for Cybernetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences together with Aksel Berg and Vasily Nalimov, about whom she left written memories.