Famous People with Name Yury

Yury Valentinovich Trifonov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yury Valentinovich Trifonov: was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "urban prose", a 1970s movement inspired by the psychologically complicated works of Anton Chekhov and his 20th-century American followers. As one of his critics noted, "Yuri Trifonov's prose may serve

Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov: is a Russian political figure. He has served as mayor of Moscow since 1992. Luzhkov is a chairman and one of founders of the ruling United Russia party.

Yury Shulman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yury Shulman: is an American chess grandmaster. He also goes by the alternate spelling of "Yuri Shulman."Shulman started formal chess lessons with coach Tamara Golovey when he was six years old. He went on to study under International Master Albert Kapengut at age 12,

Yury Aleksandrovich Prilukov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yury Aleksandrovich Prilukov: is a freestyle swimmer from Russia, who specializes in long distance swimming.Prilukov is a five-time European champion (Long Course), eight-time European champion (Short Course) and five-time World Short Course Champion and has also set three European records.

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov: is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions.Lonchakov was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office in December 1997. Lonchakov's first spaceflight was the shuttle mission STS-100 tha