List of Famous people named Yury

Yury Valentinovich Kovalchuk is a Russian billionaire businessman and financier who is "reputed to be Vladimir Putin's personal banker". The May 2008 issue of Russian Forbes listed him for the first time in its Golden Hundred of Russia's richest, calling him and another new entrant to the List, Gennady Timchenko, "good acquaintances of Vladimir Putin." The magazine placed him at number 53 on the Russians-only list, with an estimated fortune of $1.9 billion. After sanctions imposed on Kovalchuk in 2018, this dropped to $650 million.

Yury Alexandrovich Kuznetsov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, recipient of the Meritorious Artist award of Russia.

Yury Revich is a Russian classical violinist. He holds Austrian citizenship and resides in Vienna. Amongst his awards are the first prize at the International Violin Competition "Virtuosi of the 21st Century" in Moscow and the National Prize of the Patriarch of All Russia Alexy II "Christmas Star". He is the Young Artist of the Year 2015 by the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) and the 2016 ECHO Klassik "Newcomer of the year (violin)" award. He plays on a Stradivari 1709 violin on loan from the Goh Family Foundation.

Yury Karlovich Olesha was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era. His works are delicate balancing acts that superficially send pro-Communist messages but reveal far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading. Sometimes, he is grouped with his friends Ilf and Petrov, Isaac Babel, and Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky into the Odessa School of Writers.

Yury Konoplev is a Belarusian professional football coach and former player. He spent the majority of his playing and coaching career in Vitebsk.

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two career spacewalks.

Yuri Alexandrovich Kokov is a Russian politician who was served as Head of Kabardino-Balkaria from 2013 to 2018.

Yury (George) Chernavsky is a Russian producer, composer and songwriter. Chernavsky is a member of performance rights organisations such as GEMA, BMI, and RAO, and has also been recognized as a Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation.

Yury Mukhin — Soviet engineer, inventor and the top manager of the metallurgical industry; Russian public activist, researcher and writer. One of the most criminally prosecuted by the Russian authorities – since the beginning of the century he was the defendant in several dozens of lawsuits, accused and defendant in three criminal cases. In July 2015 Y.Mukhin and three other IGPR ZOV members were arrested and jailed in Moscow. In the resolution on initiation of criminal case of July 22, 2015 (on the basis of which Barabash, Mukhin, Parfenov and Sokolov were arrested) it was specified that case against organizers of IGPR ZOV is brought for creation of initiative groups for carrying out a referendum; holding of the referendum to update the Constitution of the Russian Federation with the articles on responsibility of the Supreme authorities to the people; propaganda of the idea of adoption of the law which allows people of Russia to assess the activity of the President and members of the Federal Assembly..

Yury Yurievich Boldyrev is a Russian economist and politician, he was a Senator from St. Petersburg from 1993 to 1995, and Deputy Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia from 1995 to 2001. Boldyrev was one of the founders of the Yabloko party, but left in 1995.