Pratsun (Pratzun) (née Rikelman) Elena Matveevna (4 April 1945, Ramenskoye, Moscow Region) — laboratory assistant.

Elena Pratsun was born into the family of Fira Olevskaya (b. 1916, Kyiv Region) and Motya Rikelman (b. 1913, Kyiv Region). In 1964 she graduated from Secondary School No. 639 in Moscow. From 1964 to 1966 she worked as a preparator at the Tarasova State Control Institute in Moscow. In 1966 she completed two-year nursing courses of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

From 1966 to 1968 she worked as a laboratory assistant at the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics in Moscow. In 1968–1969 she was a laboratory assistant at the Riga Dermatovenerologic Dispensary, and in 1969–1971 a worker at the agricultural artel “Ādaži”.

Married to Rafael Pratsun (b. 1938, Riga); their daughter Arianna Pratsun was born in 1970 in Riga. In 1971 she received permissionto emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Rafael Pratsun (1938, Riga) — husband
Arianna Pratsun (1970, Riga) — daughter
Fira Olevskaya (1916, Kyiv Region) — mother
Motya Rikelman (1913, Kyiv Region) — father
Vladimir Rikelman (1952, Moscow) — brother