Ekaterina

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Ekaterina
Gender	Female
Related names	Yekaterina, Katherine
Popularity	Popular names page

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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 may refer to:

• A given name
  • Art
    • Ekaterina Medvedeva, Russian naïve painter.
  • Sports
    • Ekaterina Anikeeva, Russian water polo player
    • Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian professional tennis player
    • Ekaterina Dafovska, Bulgarian biathlete
    • Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Olympic and World figure skating champion
    • Ekaterina Karsten, Belarusian rower
    • Ekaterina Kramarenko, Russian artistic gymnast
    • Ekaterina Makarova, Russian professional tennis player
    • Ekaterina Shatnaya, Kazakh athlete
    • Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Vasilieva, Russian water polo player
  • Politics
    • Ekaterina Furtseva, first woman to be admitted into Politburo
    • Ekaterina Svanidze, Georgian first wife of Joseph Stalin
  • Other fields
    • Ekaterina Kiseleva, Siberian supermodel
    • Ekaterina Korbut, woman Grandmaster of chess
    • Ekaterina Maximova (1939-2009), Russian ballerina
    • Ekaterina Peshkova, Russian human rights activist and humanitarian
    • Ekaterina Polovnikova, Russian-Turkish Grandmaster of chess
    • Ekaterina Zelyonaya, Soviet actress and singer of Ukrainian ancestry
• A novel
  • Ekaterina (novel)

In fact Joe Gaetjens, famous soccer player's granddaughter, Ekaterina, was named after Ekaterina Gordeeva

• • Ekaterina, branch in the Cahill family (The 39 Clues)

[edit] References

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

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