- Recipient of a diploma at the III Valery Gavrilin Gubernatorial International Youth Competition (Vologda, 2007)
- Recipient of the 2nd Prize and a special award winner at the VIII Krasnoyarsk International Music and Theatre Festival Competition Nadezhda-2007 (Krasnoyarsk, 2007)
- Recipient of the 1st Prize at the V International Competition of Young Music Performers (Vladivostok, 2007)
- Recipient of the 1st Prize at the II International Festival Competition of Young Musicians in the nomination of solo performing (Harbin, 2009)
- Recipient of the 2nd Prize at the VI International Competition of Young Music Performers Musical Vladivostok-2010
- Winner at the All-Russian Competition Gifted Young People of Russia in the nomination of music art (Moscow, 2010)
- Recipient of the 1st Prize at the VII International Competition of Young Music Performers Musical Vladivostok-2012 in the nomination of solo performers
- Recipient of the 1st Prize at the III Regional Competition of Contemporary Music Performers in the nomination of string quartet (Vladivostok, 2013)
- Recipient of a diploma at the XII Russian Delphic Youth Games (Novosibirsk, 2013)
- Recipient of the 1st Prize at the IV Regional Competition of Contemporary Music Performers in the nomination of solo performers (Vladivostok, 2014)
Born in Volno-Nadezhdinskoye, Primorsky Region, Elena Strukova studied at the Music College with the Far East State Academy of Arts (class of Prof. Felix Ginelevich Kalman, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation) from 2007 to 2011. In 2011 she graduated from the College with a first-class diploma and entered the Academy of Arts, continuing her studies under Prof. Felix Ginelevich Kalman.
Elena Strukova took part in master classes at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and a Gala Concert at the All-Russian Festival of Art and Culture Educational Institutions in Moscow in 2013.
