Oxana FedorovaC52 2002

Oxana Fedorova was born in Pskov, Russia, where she lived until she was 18. Fedorova is an only child, and she was brought up by her mother, Elena, and maternal grandparents.[1]

Fedorova's parents divorced when she was three years old. She never heard from her father Gennadiy again. In 2005 Oxana tried to find him, but discovered he had died.[1] Her father was a nuclear physicist, and her mother worked as a nurse at a psychiatric hospital (she is retired).[1]

At the police academy, Fedorova played the saxophone as a member of the brass band.[1]