Elena Zelenina

Elena is the founder and director of Biryukov Academy. She holds a masters in education from the Moscow State Pedagogical University and has over 25 years of teaching experience. Lena comes from a family of artists, most notably Nikolai Gladkikh (1926 - 1995) and Mikhail Biryukov (1927 - 1995), both Soviet era painters of wide noteriety.

She strarted the school in Sparta in 2003 and developed a unique integrated approach to teaching arts which combines best European approach with modern knoweledge of brain development,