Krastenova was born on 11 May 1935 in Pazardzhik, Kingdom of Bulgaria. She graduated from a polytechnic institute in Leningrad as a mechanical engineer in 1959.[1] She was a teacher at the Mathematical High School Konstantin Velichkov from 1963 to 1967.[2]
She was a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1962.[2] She was mayor of Pazardzhik from 1971 to 1973.[3] During this period, in her first term, 7 residential blocks with 392 apartments were built. In her second term, also 7 with 336 apartments. Enterprises for agronomic services with modernly furnished warehouses were established. Four summer bases were built – Prevala, Kurtludzha, Muhuvo and Dobra Voda.[4] At the 14th Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of Bulgaria in January 1990, she was elected to the party's Supreme Council.[5]
