Elena Kruglikova (born Elena Malofeeva; 16 June 1907, or 3 June 1907, in Podolsk, Moscow Governorate – 24 June 1982, in Moscow) was a Soviet opera singer, a lyric soprano, and teacher. She was named People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1947 and received the Stalin Prize, First Class, in 1943.
In 1923–1924, she studied at the Podolsk Proletkult and sang in its choir. She subsequently attended the Rubinstein Brothers Music College and was an artist of All-Union Radio from 1931 to 1933. In 1933 she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, where she studied singing with Kseniya Dorliak. From 1932 until 1956, she was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Kruglikova gave concerts throughout the country and abroad, including in Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania. She headed the vocal division of the All-Union State Concert Organization from 1957 to 1960. She taught at the Gnesins State Musical Pedagogical Institute in 1958–1959, and from 1960 to 1976 at the music college affiliated with the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory as well as at the conservatory itself. She became an associate professor in 1961.
Her interpretations of Russian and international classical music won public recognition. Her art was characterized by warm, lyrical coloring and the conveyance of subtle emotional experiences. One of the leading members of the Bolshoi Theatre opera company during the 1930s and 1940s, she appeared in its major productions. Her performance as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, entrusted to her in the first year of her stage career after a successful debut in Verdi's Rigoletto, was regarded by audiences and colleagues as among the finest in the role's history.
Her operatic roles included Tatiana in Eugene Onegin and Oksana in Cherevichki by Tchaikovsky; Fevroniya in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya; Vera Sheloga in his The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga; Lushka in Ivan Dzerzhinsky's Virgin Soil Upturned (1937); and Mathilde in Rossini's William Tell (1942). She won first prize at the All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians in Moscow in 1933, received the Stalin Prize for her portrayal of Mathilde, and was also awarded the title Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of the Badge of Honour, and medals. She was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.