Galina Nikolayevna Karelova (Russian: Галина Николаевна Карелова; born 29 June 1950) is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Volgograd Oblast since 22 September 2014.

[1] Galina Karelova was born on 29 June 1950 in Nizhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Oblast.

From 1972 to 1990, she worked at the Ural State Technical University first as an assistant and, later, as a docent.

From 1993 to 1996, she was the senator of the Federation Council but left the position to become a deputy for the State Duma of the 2nd convocation.

[1][2] Galina Karelova is under personal sanctions introduced by the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Ukraine, and New Zealand, for ratifying the decisions of the "Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People's Republic and between the Russian Federation and the Luhansk People's Republic" and providing political and economic support for Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territories.