# Timeline of Yekaterinburg

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

## Prior to 20th century

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Great Stand on the Ugra River • Time of Troubles • Zemsky Sobor • Treaty of Nystad • Petrovian reforms • 1812 Patriotic War • Decembrist Revolt • Emancipation reform • Russo-Japanese War • 1905 Revolution • October Manifesto • Second Patriotic War
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1917–1923: Russian Revolution
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1923–1991: Soviet Era
NEP • Cultural revolution • Korenization • Stalinism • Collectivization • Industrialization • GULAG • Great Purge • Great Patriotic War • Cold War • Warsaw Pact • Comecon • Crimea transfer • Era of Stagnation • Afghan War • Perestroika • Chernobyl disaster • Karabakh War • Parade of sovereignties (War of Laws)
Soviet Union 1922–1991      Russian SFSR 1922–1991      Karelo-Finnish SSR1940–1956         full list... Tannu Tuva1921–1944
since 1991: Modern Russia
August Coup • Belavezha Accords • Alma-Ata Protocol • USSR dissolution • CIS • "Near abroad" • Constitutional crisis • Privatization • CSTO • Chechen wars (1st • 2nd) • Oligarchy • Putinism • Five-Days War • Presidential terms amendments • Eurasian Economic Union • Annexation of Crimea • War in Donbas • 2020 amendments • Invasion of Ukraine (Prelude • Mass emigration • Debt default • Sanctions • Mobilization • 2022 annexation)
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* 1723 - Ekaterinburg fortress [ru] 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.
* 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.
* 1885 - Russian Orthodox Diocese of Yekaterinburg [ru] established.
* 1895 - Trans-Siberian Railway begins operating.
* 1897 - Population: 43,052.

## 20th century

* 1913 - Population: 70,000.
* 1918 - 17 July: Execution of the Romanov family by Bolsheviks.
* 1919 - City becomes capital of the Yekaterinburg Governorate [ru].
* 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
** Sverdlovsk Zoo [ru] established.
** 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.
* 1943 - Koltsovo Airport in operation.
* 1955 - Television Centre begins broadcasting.
* 1957 - Central Stadium built.
* 1965 - Population: 919,000.
* 1977 - Ipatiev House demolished.
* 1979
** 2 April: Sverdlovsk anthrax leak.
** Population: 1,239,000.
* 1983 - TV Tower construction begins.
* 1985 - Population: 1,300,000.
* 1991
** City named "Yekaterinburg" again.
** Yekaterinburg Metro begins operating.
** Yekaterinburg Commodity Exchange founded.
* 1992 - Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky becomes mayor.
* 1993 - 27 September: Urals Republic [ru] declared.
* 1999 - Bishop Oleg Mironov [ru] ousted.
* 2000 - City becomes part of the Ural Federal District.

## 21st century

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