Timeline of Yekaterinburg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia.

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Prior to 20th century

• 1723 - Ekaterinburg fortress built.[1]
• 1725 - Verkhne-Isetski ironworks established.[1]
• 1735 - Mint begins operating.[2]
• 1758 - St. Catherine's Cathedral founded.[2]
• 1774 - Epiphany Cathedral founded.[2]
• 1783 - Yekaterinburg coat of arms design adopted.[3]
• 1824 - Rastorguyev-Kharitonov Palace built.
• 1839 - Trinity Cathedral, Yekaterinburg consecrated.
• 1845 - Ekaterinburg Drama Theatre founded.[4]
• 1853 - Natural history museum opens.[2]
• 1860 - Population: 19,830.[2]
• 1876 - Bolshoi Zlatoust (church belltower) built.
• 1878 - Perm-Ekaterinburg railway begins operating.[3]
• 1883 - Population: 25,133.[5]
• 1885 - Russian Orthodox Diocese of Yekaterinburg established.
• 1895 - Trans-Siberian Railway begins operating.[1]
• 1897 - Population: 43,052.

20th century

• 1913 - Population: 70,000.[6]
• 1918 - 17 July: Execution of the Romanov family by Bolsheviks.[7]
• 1919 - City becomes capital of the Yekaterinburg Governorate.[1]
• 1920 - Ural State University founded[8] (including Ural Industrial Institute).
• 1923 - City becomes capital of Ural Oblast.[1]
• 1924 - City renamed "Sverdlovsk."[8]
• 1926 - Population: 136,421.[1]
• 1928 - Nizhne-Isetski becomes part of city.[1]
• 1930
  • Sverdlovsk Zoo established.[9]
  • Avangard football club formed.
  • Bolshoi Zlatoust (church belltower) demolished.
• 1932 - Uktus Airfield in operation.
• 1933 - Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant begins operating.[1]
• 1934
  • Urals State Conservatory founded.
  • City becomes capital of the Sverdlovsk Oblast.[8]
• 1936 - Ural Philharmonic Orchestra founded.
• 1939 - Population: 425,544.[1]
• 1941 - Red Army Theatre relocates temporarily to Sverdlovsk.[10]
• 1943 - Koltsovo Airport in operation.
• 1955 - Television Centre begins broadcasting.[11]
• 1957 - Central Stadium built.
• 1965 - Population: 919,000.[12]
• 1977 - Ipatiev House demolished.
• 1979
  • 2 April: Sverdlovsk anthrax leak.
  • Population: 1,239,000.[13]
• 1983 - TV Tower construction begins.
• 1985 - Population: 1,300,000.[14]
• 1991
  • City named "Yekaterinburg" again.[8]
  • Yekaterinburg Metro begins operating.[8]
  • Yekaterinburg Commodity Exchange founded.[8]
• 1992 - Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky becomes mayor.
• 1993 - 27 September: Urals Republic declared.[8][15]
• 1999 - Bishop Oleg Mironov ousted.[16]
• 2000 - City becomes part of the Ural Federal District.

21st century

• 2003 - Church of All Saints built.
• 2006 - IKEA branch in business.[17]
• 2009
  • 16 June: 1st BRIC summit held in city.
  • Yeltsin Presidential Center founded.[18]
• 2010
  • Alexander Yacob becomes head of city administration.[3]
  • February Revolution (apartment complex) built on February Revolution Street (Ekaterinburg)
  • Population: 1,349,772.
• 2011
  • Russian Orthodox Archdiocese of Yekaterinburg established.
  • Vysotsky (skyscraper) built.
• 2013
  • 15 February: Chelyabinsk meteor visible from city.
  • 28 August: Search for escaped crocodile.[19]
  • 8 September: Yekaterinburg mayoral election, 2013 held; Yevgeny Roizman wins.
  • Population: 1,424,702.[3]

See also

• Yekaterinburg history
• History of Yekaterinburg
• List of mayors of Yekaterinburg
• List of administrative-territorial units headquartered in Yekaterinburg (in Russian)
• List of landmarks in Yekaterinburg

References

1. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Sverdlovsk", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1851, OL 6112221M
2. Britannica 1910.
3. "Официальный портал Екатеринбурга" [Official portal of Ekaterinburg]. Retrieved March 30, 2015. English version
4. Ron Rubin, ed. (1994). "Russia". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-11804-3.
5. "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
6. "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
7. Robert A. Saunders; Vlad Strukov (2010). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7460-2.
8. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.
9. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
10. Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky, ed. (2014). The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-19476-0.
11. Paul Dukes (2015). A History of the Urals: Russia's Crucible from Early Empire to the Post-Soviet Era. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-7379-7.
12. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. Sverdlovsk
13. Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
14. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289. Sverdlovsk
15. "Meek revolt transforms Sverdlovsk". The Independent. UK. 14 July 1993.
16. Michael R. Gordon (22 July 1999). "Orthodox Bishop in Russia, Accused of Corruption, Is Removed". New York Times.
17. "Russia: Richer, bolder—and sliding back", The Economist, 13 July 2006
18. Steven Lee Myers (5 June 2014). "Where Some May Say No Thanks for the Memories". New York Times.
19. "Escaped crocodile in Yekaterinburg, Russia, sparks police hunt", The Guardian, London, 29 August 2013

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• Georg Adolf Erman (1848). "(Yekaterinburg)". Travels in Siberia. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Translated from the German by William Desborough Cooley
• W.G. Blackie, ed. (1875). "Ekaterinburg". Imperial Gazetteer. London: Blackie & Son.
• "Ekaterinburg". Guide to the Great Siberian Railway. St. Petersburg: Ministry of Ways of Communication. 1900.
• "Ekaterinburg", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• "Yekaterinburg", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163

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