Ekaterina

Ekaterina is a feminine given name. It is a Bulgarian and Macedonian form of Katherine, as well as a Russian variant of Yekaterina. 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)