Elena Korikova

She was born on April 12, 1972 in Tobolsk in the family of Yuri Alekseevich Korikov and ballerina Tatyana Korikova, parents soon divorced. Until the 2nd grade, Lena lived in a village near Tobolsk, with her grandparents, her mother's parents, since her mother often went on tour. Her grandmother was a teacher, her grandmother's father was shot because he was a priest. Grandma loved and knew how to sing, she played the balalaika, guitar and button accordion and was always cheerful. Elena met her father after school, he lived then in Tyumen, his father had a new family and two children. The father is domineering and stubborn by nature, so he did not immediately find a common language with his adult daughter. Elena's father bought an apartment in Moscow, where her mother now lives. Then she and her mother moved to Rostov-on-Don.