Ukrainian Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

Is a professional Ukrainian football defender who currently plays for Ukrainian Premier League club

Is a professional Ukrainian football defender who currently plays for Ukrainian Premier League club FC Karpaty Lviv. He is the product of the Karpaty Lviv Youth School System.

Is a retired male boxer from Ukraine. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Is a retired male boxer from Ukraine. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was stopped in the first round of the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg) by Bulgaria's eventual silver medalist Serafim T

Is a Ukrainian former handball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Is a Ukrainian former handball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity. Szabó made his name as a player at Dynam

Is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity. Szabó made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from 1959 to 1969. A four-time USSR domestic champion, Szabó appeared in 315 games in the competition, scoring 49 goals. Aside from being named one of the 33 best players in the USSR for five years, Szabó was capped 40 times for the USSR national side, while scoring 8 goals. He is also arguably the second-most successful coach of the Ukrainian national team, compiling 16 wins and 12 draws in 34 matches as coach of the side in 1994 and 1996–1999.

Is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who currently plays for FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok

Is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who currently plays for FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok. He played for Arsenal Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League on loan from Dynamo Kyiv.

Is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine. Beygelzimer has competed for Ukraine both at th

Is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine. Beygelzimer has competed for Ukraine both at the Olympics and the Fed Cup, finally reaching the Top 100, at number 83 in September of 2006. She is perhaps best known for almost beating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Open, leading 3 games to 0 in the final set. Despite her well-played match against Capriati, Beygelzimer has never made a WTA singles semifinal at a tournament.

Is a Ukrainian retired competitive figure skater. Her highest placement at the World Figure Skating

Is a Ukrainian retired competitive figure skater. Her highest placement at the World Figure Skating Championships was 9th, in 1997 and 1999. She placed 11th at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Was a canoeist from Ukraine and Olympic champion. She represented the USSR at the 1972 Summer Olympi

Was a canoeist from Ukraine and Olympic champion. She represented the USSR at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning the gold in the K-1 500 m event.[1][2]

Is a Ukrainian politician and current Prime Minister of Ukraine. She is leader of the All-Ukrainian

Is a Ukrainian politician and current Prime Minister of Ukraine. She is leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Before becoming Ukraine's first female Prime Minister, Tymoshenko was one of the key leaders of the Orange Revolution. In this period, some Western media publications dubbed her as the "Joan of Arc of the Revolution".

Is a Belarusian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.

Is a Belarusian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.

Is a female tennis player from Ukraine.On May 1, 2006, Fedak reached her highest singles ranking, Wo

Is a female tennis player from Ukraine.On May 1, 2006, Fedak reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 75.

Is a female tennis player from Ukraine. On September 18, 2006, Fedak reached her highest singles ran

Is a female tennis player from Ukraine. On September 18, 2006, Fedak reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 63.

A Belarusian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.In 2006 Zhalniaruk won silver medals in 4 x

A Belarusian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.In 2006 Zhalniaruk won silver medals in 4 x 400 metres relay at the World Indoor Championships (with teammates Natallia Solohub, Anna Kozak and Ilona Usovich) and the European Championships (with Sviatlana Usovich, Kozak and I. Usovich).

Is a Belarusian judoka.

Is a Belarusian judoka.

Is a Belarusian rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in cox

Is a Belarusian rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in coxless pair

A retired Soviet and Belarusian football player and a current manager.

A retired Soviet and Belarusian football player and a current manager.

Is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. With Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Nebo

Is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. With Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak, he co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group in 1985. To date, Andrukhovych has published four novels, four poetry collections, a cycle of short stories, a

Is a light heavyweight Ukrainian boxer and a former world title challenger and European champion. He

Is a light heavyweight Ukrainian boxer and a former world title challenger and European champion. He dethroned light heavyweight champion of Europe Thomas Ulrich. He also fought with such people as Zsolt Erdei and Hugo Garay.

Is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics

Is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1972 and 1976.

Is a Ukrainian footballer currently under contract for Moldovan side FC Nistru Otaci.

Is a Ukrainian footballer currently under contract for Moldovan side FC Nistru Otaci.

Was a Soviet Ukrainian professional football player.

Was a Soviet Ukrainian professional football player.

Was a Ukrainian chess master. Sakharov was twice Ukrainian Champion in 1966 and 1968. He participate

Was a Ukrainian chess master. Sakharov was twice Ukrainian Champion in 1966 and 1968. He participated in many Ukrainian championships, tying for 4-6th in 1946 (Anatoly Bannik won), tying for 3rd-4th in 1947 (Alexey Sokolsky won), tying for 6-9th in 1949 (Isaac Lipnitsky won), taking 5th in 1951 (Bannik won), taking 2nd, behind Efim Geller, in 1958, tying for 4-5th in 1959 (Geller won), sharing 1st with Leonid Stein but lost to him a match for the title (+1 -3 =2) in 1960, tying for 3rd-4th in 1961 (Yuri Kots won), taking 3rd in 1962 (Stein won), and tying for 2nd-3rd in 1964 (Bannik won).

Is a Ukrainian-Soviet chess master. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship three times (1963, 1967

Is a Ukrainian-Soviet chess master. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship three times (1963, 1967 (jointly), and 1977), and represented the Soviet Union three times in international student team competition, winning a total of four medals. He was of Gra

A Belarusian footballer (defender) playing currently for FC BATE.

A Belarusian footballer (defender) playing currently for FC BATE.

A Belarusian football player and football manager. He quit playing football in 1987 because of an in

A Belarusian football player and football manager. He quit playing football in 1987 because of an injury. Graduated from two universities: Belarusian Technological Institute (specialty - mechanical engineer) in 1983 and Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in 1996.