Timeline of Yekaterinburg explained

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

Prior to 20th century

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

20th century

• 1913 - Population: 70,000.^[3]
• 1918 - 17 July: Execution of the Romanov family by Bolsheviks.^[4]
• 1919 - City becomes capital of the .
• 1920 - Ural State University founded (including Ural Industrial Institute).
• 1923 - City becomes capital of Ural Oblast.
• 1924 - City renamed "Sverdlovsk."
• 1926 - Population: 136,421.
• 1928 - Nizhne-Isetski becomes part of city.
• 1930
  • established.^[5]
  • Avangard football club formed.
  • Bolshoi Zlatoust (church belltower) demolished.
• 1932 - Uktus Airfield in operation.
• 1933 - Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant begins operating.
• 1934
  • Urals State Conservatory founded.
  • City becomes capital of the Sverdlovsk Oblast.
• 1936 - Ural Philharmonic Orchestra founded.
• 1939 - Population: 425,544.
• 1941 - Red Army Theatre relocates temporarily to Sverdlovsk.^[6]
• 1943 - Koltsovo Airport in operation.
• 1955 - Television Centre begins broadcasting.^[7]
• 1957 - Central Stadium built.
• 1965 - Population: 919,000.^[8]
• 1977 - Ipatiev House demolished.
• 1979
  • 2 April: Sverdlovsk anthrax leak.
  • Population: 1,239,000.^[9]
• 1983 - TV Tower construction begins.
• 1985 - Population: 1,300,000.^[10]
• 1991
  • City named "Yekaterinburg" again.
  • Yekaterinburg Metro begins operating.
  • Yekaterinburg Commodity Exchange founded.^[11]
• 1992 - Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky becomes mayor.
• 1993 - 27 September: declared.^[12]
• 1999 - Bishop ousted.^[13]
• 2000 - City becomes part of the Ural Federal District.

21st century

• 2003 - Church of All Saints built.
• 2006 - IKEA branch in business.http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_JP/about_ikea/facts_and_figures/ikea_group_stores/russia.html
• 2009
  • 16 June: 1st BRIC summit held in city.
  • Yeltsin Presidential Center founded.http://www.yeltsincenter.ru/yeltsin-presidential-center^[14]
• 2010
  • Alexander Yacob becomes head of city administration.
  • built on
  • Population: 1,349,772.
• 2011
  • Russian Orthodox established.
  • Vysotsky (skyscraper) built.
• 2013
  • 15 February: Chelyabinsk meteor visible from city.
  • 28 August: Search for escaped crocodile.
  • 8 September: held; Yevgeny Roizman wins.
  • Population: 1,424,702.^[15]

See also

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

References

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• Book: . Travels in Siberia. 1848. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans . Translated from the German by William Desborough Cooley . (Yekaterinburg) . https://books.google.com/books?id=vEZTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA208 .
• Book: W.G. Blackie . London . . Imperial Gazetteer. 1875 . Ekaterinburg . https://books.google.com/books?id=8ewDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA916 .
• Book: Guide to the Great Siberian Railway . 1900 . Ekaterinburg . https://books.google.com/books?id=S_1KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA118 . Ministry of Ways of Communication . St. Petersburg .
• Ekaterinburg . 9 . 138 - 139 . 1910 . . 1.

Notes and References

1. Book: Ron Rubin . World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre . 1994 . Routledge. 978-1-136-11804-3 . Russia .
2. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . Statesman's Year-Book . 1885 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Russia . 2027/nyp.33433081590469?urlappend=%3Bseq=448 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590469?urlappend=%3Bseq=448 .
3. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 .
4. Book: Robert A. Saunders. Vlad Strukov. Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation. 2010. . 978-0-8108-7460-2 . Chronology .
5. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5.
6. Book: Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky . The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History. 2014. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-19476-0.
7. Book: Paul Dukes. A History of the Urals: Russia's Crucible from Early Empire to the Post-Soviet Era. 2015. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4725-7379-7.
8. Book: Demographic Yearbook 1965 . 1966 . . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . Sverdlovsk .
9. Book: Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart . The Contemporary Soviet City. 1984. M.E. Sharpe . New York . 978-0-87332-248-5.
10. Book: 1985 Demographic Yearbook . 1987 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 247–289 . Sverdlovsk .
11. Book: Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications . 2002 . 978-1-85743-137-7.
12. Web site: Meek revolt transforms Sverdlovsk . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/meek-revolt-transforms-sverdlovsk-the-selfproclamation-of-the-urals-republic-could-start-a-chain-reaction-across-russia-writes-andrew-higgins-from-yekaterinburg-1484782.html . 2022-05-07 . subscription . live . 14 July 1993 . . UK .
13. Web site: Orthodox Bishop in Russia, Accused of Corruption, Is Removed . Michael R. Gordon . 22 July 1999 . New York Times .
14. Web site: Where Some May Say No Thanks for the Memories . Steven Lee Myers . 5 June 2014 . New York Times .
15. Web site: Официальный портал Екатеринбурга . Official portal of Ekaterinburg . English version . March 30, 2015 .