Yelena Fyodorovna Kolesova (Russian: Елена Фёдоровна Колесова; 1 August 1920 – 11 September 1942) was the commander of a partisan unit of the Soviet special forces during World War II.

After dying in battle in a successful attack on a German fortress in Vydritsa, Kolesova was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 21 November 1944.

Her father died in 1922 and she was raised by her mother with her brothers Konstantin and Aleksander and sister Galina until she moved in with her aunt and uncle at the age of eight, who lived in the city of Moscow.

After brief training she and a group of several other members of the unit were deployed on 28 October 1941 to plant landmines on roads, destroy communication infrastructure, and collect military intelligence in German-occupied villages on the outskirts of Moscow.

The guerillas bombed bridges and even derailed a military train in broad daylight, but after the Germans found their campsite they had to relocate their de facto headquarters into the deep forest.