Ekaterina

Ekaterina is a feminine given name. It is a Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Katherine, as well as a Russian variant of Yekaterina.^[1] Ekaterina or Yekaterina may refer to:

• A given name
  • Art
    • Ekaterina Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter.
    • Ekaterina Kukhareva (born 1986), Ukrainian knitwear designer.
  • Sports
    • Yekaterina Abramova (born 1982), Russian speed chaser
    • Ekaterina Anikeeva (born 1969), Russian water polo player
    • Ekaterina Bychkova (born 1985), Russian professional tennis player
    • Ekaterina Dafovska (born 1975), Bulgarian biathlete
    • Ekaterina Dzehalevich (born 1986), Belarusian professional tennis player
    • Yekaterina Gamova (born 1980), Russian volleyball player
    • Ekaterina Gordeeva (born 1971), Russian Olympic and World figure skating champion
    • Ekaterina Ivanova (biathlete) (born 1977), Belarusian biathlete
    • Ekaterina Ivanova (tennis) (born 1987), Bychkova's Russian compatriot and professional tennis player
    • Ekaterina Karsten (born 1972), Belarusian rower
    • Yekaterina Khramenkova (born 1956), Soviet long-distance runner
    • Ekaterina Kramarenko (born 1991), Russian artistic gymnast
    • Yekaterina Lobaznyuk (born 1983), Olympic gymnast who competed for Russia in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney
    • Yekaterina Lobysheva (born 1985), Russian speed skater
    • Ekaterina Makarova (born 1988), Ivanovs's Russian compatriot and professional tennis player
    • Yekaterina Podkopayeva (born 1952), middle distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia
    • Ekaterina Shatnaya (born 1979), Kazakh athlete
    • Yekaterina Smirnova (born 1956), Soviet heptathlete
    • Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Vasilieva (born 1976), Russian water polo player
  • Politics
    • Catherine Breshkovsky (1844–1934), Russian socialist
    • Catherine I of Russia (1684–1727), Empress of Russia
    • Catherine II of Russia (1729–1796), Empress of Russia
    • Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), first woman to be admitted into Politburo
    • Yekaterina Kuskova (1869–1958), Russian Marxist political figure
    • Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (1743–1810), the closest female friend of Empress Catherine the Great
    • Ekaterina Svanidze (1880–1907), Georgian first wife of Joseph Stalin
    • Eka (Ekaterine) Tkeshelashvili (born 1977), Georgian jurist and former minister of foreign affairs of Georgia
  • Other fields
    • Yekaterina Geltzer (1876–1962), prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet who danced in the theatre from 1898 to 1935
    • Yekaterina Golubeva (1966–2011), Russian actress
    • Ekaterina 'Katia' Ivanova (born 1988), Kazakh-born English model and contestant on Celebrity Big Brother 2010
    • Ekaterina Kashyntseva, Russian supermodel
    • Ekaterina Kiseleva, Siberian supermodel
    • Ekaterina Korbut, woman Grandmaster of chess
    • Ekaterina Maximova (1939–2009), Russian ballerina
    • Ekaterina Peshkova (1887–1965), Russian human rights activist and humanitarian
    • Ekaterina Polovnikova-Atalik (born 1982), Russian-Turkish Grandmaster of chess
    • Ekaterina Zelyonaya (1902–1991), Soviet actress and singer of Ukrainian ancestry
  • In fiction
    • Yekaterina "Katya" Derevko
• A novel
  • Ekaterina (novel)
  • Ekaterina, branch in the Cahill family (The 39 Clues)

References

1. ^ MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Ekaterina