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Yelena Volchetskaya

Yelena Volchetskaya (Елена Владимировна Волчецкая), Soviet artistic gymnast born 1943 in Hrodna; 1964 Tokyo Olympic team gold medalist, 8th all-around, later coach of Olga Korbut and Grodno State University professor.

Yelena Volkova

Yelena Volkova (Волкова Елена) names several Soviet and Russian athletes, chiefly a breaststroke swimmer born 1968, 1991 world champion, and a volleyball player born 1960, 1988 Olympic champion.

Yelena Y. Janjigian

Yelena Y. Janjigian is an American gastrointestinal medical oncologist who has led the GI Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering since 2018 and led the MATTERHORN gastric cancer trial.

Yelena Yelesina

Yelena Yelesina (Елена Борисовна Елесина), Russian high jumper born 1970 in Chelyabinsk; 2000 Sydney Olympic champion at 2.01 m, two-time World silver medallist (1991, 1999), personal best 2.02 m.

Yelena Yemchuk (Єлена Ємчук)

Yelena Yemchuk (Єлена Ємчук), born 1970 in Kyiv, is a Ukrainian-American photographer, painter, and filmmaker in New York; Smashing Pumpkins video director whose photobooks Gidropark, Odesa, and Malanka examine Ukrainian identity.

Yelena Zamolodchikova

Yelena Zamolodchikova (Елена Замолодчикова), born 1982 in Moscow, is a Russian gymnast who won vault and floor gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and four medals in total.

Yelets-Kremenchuk–Kryvyi Rih Gas Pipeline

The Yelets-Kremenchuk–Kryvyi Rih Gas Pipeline is a 771 km natural gas pipeline running from Yelets in Russia to Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine, operated by Gazprom and GTSOU.

Yelets-Kursk-Dykanka Gas Pipeline

The Yelets-Kursk-Dykanka Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline, begun in 1984, that carries Russian gas from Yelets to Dykanka, Ukraine, entering through the Sudzha metering station.

Yelets-Kursk-Kyiv Gas Pipeline

The Yelets-Kursk-Kyiv Gas Pipeline (Газопровод Елец - Курск - Киев) is a trunk natural gas pipeline from Yelets, Russia, to Kyiv, Ukraine, built in the early 1980s.

Yelizaveta Dementyeva

Yelizaveta Dementyeva (Елизавета Дементьева), Soviet sprint kayaker, 1928-2022; won K-1 500 m gold at 1956 Melbourne Olympics, 1958 world title, and 1957 and 1959 European titles; not the tennis player Yelena Dementyeva.

Yell Extreme Park

Yell Extreme Park, adventure park in Yenokavan, Tavush, Armenia, opened 2014; 1,500 m canyon zipline, five lines, via ferrata, rope park, off-road tours, horseback riding; run with Apaga Resort, about 150 km from Yerevan.

YELLA

YELLA (옐라, 김채민) is a South Korean singer-songwriter in the R&B and hip-hop scene who debuted in 2020 with the eight-track EP Maybecolorful and later founded the four-member team Pizza.zip.

Yella (2007 film)

Yella is Christian Petzold's 2007 German drama-thriller starring Nina Hoss as an East German woman who apparently survives her ex-husband driving their car into the Elbe and starts over in Hannover venture capital; Hoss won the 2007 Berlinale Silver Bear.

Yelland Linea

Yelland Linea is a 186-km-long linea (band) on Jupiter's moon Europa at 16.7°S, 196°W in Argadnel Regio, named in 2006 for a stone row in England; a lineated, dilational band crosscutting Ino Linea.

Yello

Yello: Swiss electronic duo of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier, formed in Zurich in 1979 (with Carlos Peron until 1983). Known for "Oh Yeah" (1985, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and "The Race" (1988); 14 albums from Solid Pleasure to Point, with Time Lab due 2026.

Yello Mobile

Yello Mobile (옐로모바일) was a Seoul-based mobile app holding company founded by Lee Sang-hyuk in 2012, once valued at about US$4 billion, that closed in 2024.

Yellow

Yellow, also called the color yellow, is perceived by light of about 577 to 597 nanometers, between green and orange, and is a subtractive primary color of printing.

Yellow (2025 film)

Yellow (Tamil: எல்லோ) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Hari Mahadevan, starring Poornima Ravi as an engineering graduate who journeys through Kerala.

Yellow (Coldplay song)

Yellow is a 2000 Coldplay single from Parachutes, written by Chris Martin at Rockfield Studios after Ken Nelson pointed out the stars; produced by Nelson, it peaked at UK number 4.

Yellow (landform)

Yellow (landform): the Yellow River (Huang He) system of northern China, a 5,400 km silt-laden river from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea, cradle of Chinese civilization and China's most flood-prone landform.

Yellow badge

Yellow badge (Judenstern, Jewish badge, yellow star): cloth mark ordered onto Jews' clothing, from 8th-century Muslim caliphs through the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council to the Nazi-era Star of David decree of September 1, 1941.

Yellow Book (Interstate Highway System)

The Yellow Book is the informal name for a September 1955 Bureau of Public Roads publication showing, for the first time, planned urban Interstate highway locations.

Yellow Claw (DJs)

Yellow Claw: Dutch electronic duo from Amsterdam, formed in 2010 by Jim Aasgier, Nizzle, and MC Bizzey (left 2016); trap/EDM act behind Blood for Mercy and the Barong Family label.

Yellow Crane Tower

Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼) is a tower on Snake Hill in Wuhan, China, first built in 223 AD and subject of Cui Hao's celebrated Tang poem.

Yellow crazy ant

Yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes, longlegged ant), a top-100 invasive tramp ant of pantropical lowlands, forms supercolonies over 100 ha, devastates Christmas Island red crabs via formic acid spray, and depends on scale-insect honeydew.

Yellow Earth (黄土地)

Yellow Earth (黄土地) is Chen Kaige's 1984 debut feature, photographed by Zhang Yimou and scored by Zhao Jiping, adapted from Ke Lan's novella 深谷回声. Set in 1939 Shaanbei, it follows Cuiqiao's flight from an arranged marriage and won the Locarno Silver Leopard, founding the Fifth Generation's visual style.

Yellow Emperor

Yellow Emperor (黃帝, Huangdi, Xuanyuan): legendary first of the Five Emperors in the Shiji, culture hero, namesake of the Huangdi Neijing, and modern national ancestor of China; no archaeological confirmation.

Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon (黄帝内经) is an ancient Chinese medical text first recorded in the Book of Han imperial bibliography in 18 juan, its extant Suwen and Lingshu identification disputed by modern scholars.

Yellow fever

Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral hemorrhagic disease of Africa and South America, spread by Aedes, Haemagogus, and Sabethes mosquitoes. The 17D vaccine (Theiler, 1936) gives lifelong protection with one dose; there is no specific treatment.

Yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s in the Caribbean

The yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s in the Caribbean were a pandemic from 1793 to 1798, centered on Saint-Domingue, where disease largely destroyed the British expeditionary force.