The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Prior to 20th century
edit- 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 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
edit- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
21st century
edit- 2003 - Church of All Saints built.
- 2006 - IKEA branch in business.[17][1]
- 2009
- 16 June: 1st BRIC summit held in city.
- Yeltsin Presidential Center founded.[2][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
editReferences
editThis article incorporates information from the Russian Wiki How.
Bibliography
edit- 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.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 138–139.
- "Yekaterinburg", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
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