Biography

Anniversary Amateur Radio Station Ekaterinburg 290 years
Chkalovskiy District RDA: SV-07
Ekaterinburg
Asiatic Russia
On Air: 18 August - 18 November 2013

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Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatishchev and Georg Wilhelm de Gennin and named after Tsar Peter the Great's wife Catherine I (Yekaterina). The official date of the city's foundation is November 18, 1723. It was granted town status in 1796

Soon after the October Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexey were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city. Other members of the Romanov family were killed at Alapayevsk the day after. In 1977, the Ipatiev House was demolished by order of Boris Yeltsin, to prevent it from being used as a rallying location for monarchists. He later became the first President of Russia and represented the people at the funeral of the Tsar in 1998.
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Equipment

Operators: R290ECH

RD9CX - CW
RV9CEI - Digi
RD9CX, RV9CEI - SSB