Ekaterina

Ekaterina

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Russian
Meaning	Pristine
Other names
Alternative spelling	Cyrillic: Екатерина
Variant form(s)	Yekaterina
See also	Katerina, Katherine

Ekaterina is a feminine given name, and an alternative transliteration of the Russian Yekaterina. Katya and Katyusha are common diminutive forms of Ekaterina. Notable people with the name can be found below.

Arts

• Ekaterina Malysheva (born 1986), Russian designer and Hanoverian princess by marriage
• Ekaterina Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
• Ekaterina Sedia (born 1970), Russian fantasy author

Sports

• Yekaterina Abramova (born 1982), Russian speed 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 Alexandrovskaya (born 2000), Russian-Australian pair skater

Politics

• 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
• Yekaterina 'Katya' Petrovna Zamolodchikova (born 1982), American drag queen and actor

Fictional characters

• Yekaterina "Katya" Derevko
• Ekaterina Golovkina, a character in the Life
• Ekaterina Dmitrievna Smokovnikova, The Road to Calvary

See also

• 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)