Yuri - Slavic People

Slavic People

• Yuri I of Galicia (1252–1308), King of Kyivan Rus'
• Yuri Andropov (1914–1984), Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Yuri Andrukhovych (born 1960), Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator
• Yuri Arbachakov, (born 1966), Russian-Japanese world champion boxer
• Yuri Artsutanov (born 1929), Russian pioneer of the idea of Space Elevator
• Yuri Brezhnev (born 1933), son of Leonid Brezhnev
• Yuri Churbanov (born 1936), son-in-law of Leonid Brezhnev
• Yuri Dolgoruki (1099–1157), Grand Prince of Kiev
• Yuri Feodorovich Orlov (born 1924), Soviet physicist and human rights activist
• Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), Soviet cosmonaut, the first human in space
• Yuri Hlushko-Mova (1882–1942), Ukrainian political figure active in the Far East
• Yuri Izrael (born 1930), Russian scientist and vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Yuri Kane (born 1975), Russian musician
• Yury Luzhkov (born 1936), Mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010
• Yuri Maslyukov (1937–2010), Russian politician
• Yuri Matochkin (1931–2006), Russian politician
• Yuri Omeltchenko (born 1971), Ukrainian orienteering champion
• Yuri Rost (born 1939), Ukrainian photographer and journalist
• Yury Sevidov (1942–2010), Russian footballer
• Yuriy Venherovsky (1941–2004), Soviet volleyball Olympic champion
• Yuri Vovk (born 1988), Ukrainian chess player
• Yury Zakharevitch (born 1963), Olympic weightlifter for the Soviet Union