Maizel (Meisel) Elena Borisovna (1909) — participant in the revolutionary movement, party activist.

From 1927, Elena Maizel participated in the revolutionary movement in Latvia, was a member of an underground circle, a cell of the MOPR (International Organisation for Assistance to Revolutionary Fighters), and legal workers' societies such as Energia and Prosveschenie. In 1927, she joined the Komsomol. In 1929–1930, an underground printing press was organised in E. Maizel's apartment. From 1930, she worked as a propagandist, first in the Griziņkalns district, then in the Moscow district of Riga. She was arrested several times but released due to lack of evidence. In 1932, she was appointed organiser of the 1st district of the Riga organisation of the Latvian Komsomol. In the same year, she was arrested again and in 1933 sentenced to two years in prison. After her release from prison in 1935, she left for Czechoslovakia, where she studied at Prague University until 1938 and was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1936 to 1938. In 1938, while expecting a child, she returned to Latvia and lived with her parents. In 1940–1941, she worked as a secretary in the NKGB (People’s Commissariat for State Security) department and as an instructor for the Daugavpils City Party Committee. She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1942. During the Second World War, she was evacuated and worked as an instructor in a hospital and health department. From 1943 to 1946, she was an instructor at the Kalinin City Party Committee and head of the organisational instructor department of the Daugavpils City Party Committee. From 1946 to 1948, she was a student at the Republican Party School. From 1948 to 1959, she worked as an editor at the Latvian State Publishing House. In 1959, she received personal pensioner status, and from 1966 to 1970, she worked again as a librarian and senior librarian at the V. Lacis Library. She was awarded medals ‘For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War’ and ‘30 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War’.