Famous People with Name Yury

Yury Olesha            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yury Olesha: was a Russian novelist. He is considered to have been 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

Yury Petrovich Vlasov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yury Petrovich Vlasov: is a former Olympic heavyweight weightlifter for the Soviet Union, a writer and a politician.

Yury Tynyanov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yury Tynyanov: was a famous Soviet/Russian writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and scriptwriter of Jewish origin.

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.