Ekaterina
Appearance
Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Language(s) | Russian |
Meaning | Pristine |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Cyrillic: Екатерина |
Variant form(s) | Yekaterina |
See also | Katerina, Katherine |
Ekaterina is a Russian feminine given name, and an alternative transliteration of the Russian Yekaterina.[1] Katya and Katyusha are common diminutive forms of Ekaterina. Its Western counterpart is Catherine (Katherine). Notable people with the name can be found below.
Arts
- Ekaterina Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
- Ekaterina Sedia (born 1970), Russian fantasy author
- Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova (born 1982), American Drag Performer
Sports
- Yekaterina Abramova (born 1982), Russian speed skater
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (born 1997), Russian professional tennis player
- Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya (2000–2020), Russian-Australian pairs skater
- 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), Ivanova's Russian compatriot and professional tennis player
- Ekaterina Nikolaidou (born 1992), Greek rower athlete
- Yekaterina Podkopayeva (born 1952), middle-distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia
- Ekaterina Shatnaya (born 1979), Kazakhstani athlete
- Yekaterina Smirnova (born 1956), Soviet heptathlete
- Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Vasilieva (born 1976), Russian water polo player
- Ekaterina Vandaryeva, a Russian kickboxer
- Ekaterina Selezneva (born 1995), Russian rhythmic gymnast
Politics
- Catherine the Great in Russian called as Yekaterina Velikaya
- Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), first woman to be admitted into Politburo
- Ekaterina Kalinina (1882-1960), Soviet politician and First Lady of the Soviet Union
- 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 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
Fictional characters
- Yekaterina "Katya" Derevko
- Ekaterina Golovkina, a character in the Life
- Ekaterina Dmitrievna Smokovnikova, The Road to Calvary
- Kate Daniels from the Magic Series by Ilona Andrew's. Kate' real name is Ekaterina, but she always calls herself Kate.
- Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya (Kitty), a character in Anna Karenina
See also
- Katherine
- Ekaterina (novel), a novel by Donald Harington
- Ekaterina (TV series), based on the life of Catherine the Great
- Ekaterina, branch in the Cahill family (The 39 Clues)