Elena Nekrasova, Director of the Scientific Music Library of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, and honored librarian of the Russian Federation.

Soon after graduation from the Academy of Culture and Arts, she started to work in the library of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and in 1986 became its director. Under her leadership the library became one of the most important scientific music centers of the country. The manuscript department of the library holds an annual scientific conference which attracts widespread attention of Russian and foreign scholars. Elena Nekrasova, author of many publications, has organized the publication of a series of books dedicated to examining the problems of music sources and has participated in many notable Russian and international conferences on the subject.