Yelena Konstantinovna Stempkovskaya (Belarusian: Алена Канстанцінаўна Стампкоўская, romanized: Alena Kanstancinaǔna Stampkoǔskaja, Russian: Елена Константиновна Стемпковская; October 1921 – 30 June 1942) was a Soviet radio operator in the 216th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army during World War II who was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 May 1946.
Despite dreaming of becoming a ship's captain at one point, she eventually decided to become a teacher, entering the history department of the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute in 1940.
Initially she attended local radio operator courses, which she graduated from in January 1942 before being deployed to the warfront; the classes normally lasted over a year, but due to the war they were condensed to an intense several months of study.
In addition to serving in her capacity as a radio operator, she practiced firing machine guns; in one of her letters home she wrote that she was happy for have found her place in the military.
Later on in the war a leaflet describing her feat was distributed in 1943, and eventually there were calls for her to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.