She was born in 1920 in the village of Saranpaul (now Berezovsky District). After graduating from a seven-year school, she entered the Khanty-Mansiysk feldsher-obstetric school. After graduating from college in 1941, Elena Arteeva worked as the head of a health center in the national village of Yuilske. In October 1941, she volunteered for the front. Combat path: in the rank of lieutenant, Elena Arteeva served on the Stalingrad front in an anti-tank battalion near Kotluban. She died on September 19, 1942, was buried three kilometers south-east of Kotluban. For a long time, the details of the circumstances of the death of Elena Arteeva were not known. But thanks to the work of activists of the Museum "Memory", created at the Beloyarsk school number 2, the fighting friends of Elena Arteeva, Alexander Dezhurova and Sasha Kudryavtseva, were found. In their memoirs, they shared the following information: during one of the battles for the Kotluban railway station, a German tank broke into the territory of the medical unit. When there was a threat to the lives of the wounded soldiers, Elena Arteeva, taking a bunch of grenades, went to meet the tank and at the cost of her own life stopped the enemy vehicle. Having performed a feat to save the lives of soldiers, Elena Arteeva died at the age of 22. One of the streets of her native village Saranpaul was named in memory of the feat of Elena Arteeva
