All articles starting with Y

Yuri Norstein (Юрий Борисович Норштейн)

Yuri Norstein (Юрий Борисович Норштейн, born 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animation director, creator of Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales, named best animated film of all time in 1984 and 2003, and of the unfinished The Overcoat, in progress since 1981.

Yuri of Goguryeo

Yuri of Goguryeo (유리왕), also rendered Yuri Myeongwang, was the second ruler of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, reigning from 19 BC to 18 AD.

Yuri Oganessian

Yuri Oganessian, born 1933, is a Russian nuclear physicist at JINR in Dubna who led the synthesis of superheavy elements 114 through 118 using hot fusion.

Yuri Olesha

Yuri Olesha, born Yury Karlovich Olesha (Юрий Карлович Олеша), was a Soviet writer famous for his metaphor-rich novel Envy (1927) and the fairy tale The Three Fat Men.

Yuri on Ice (ユーリ!!! on ICE)

Yuri on Ice (ユーリ!!! on ICE) is a 2016 MAPPA original TV anime by Mitsurou Kubo and Sayo Yamamoto about skater Yuri Katsuki coached by champion Victor Nikiforov; 12 episodes, major 2017 awards and record Blu-ray sales.

Yuri Orlov (Юрий Фёдорович Орлов)

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (1924–2020) was a Soviet-born accelerator physicist and human rights activist who founded the Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976, endured labor camp and Siberian exile, and later became a professor at Cornell University.

Yuri Osipyan

Yuri Andreevich Osipyan (Юрий Андреевич Осипьян; 1931–2008) was a Soviet and Russian solid-state physicist who discovered the photoplastic effect and led the Institute of Solid State Physics in Chernogolovka for 29 years.

Yuri Petunin

Yuri Ivanovich Petunin (Юрій Іванович Петунін; 1937–2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician at Kyiv State University known for the Vysochanskii–Petunin inequality, a rigorous 3-sigma rule.

Sep 24, 2026

Yuri Samarin

Yuri Samarin (Юрий Фёдорович Самарин) was a Russian Slavophile publicist and historian who helped draft the emancipation of the serfs and the Polish peasant reform.

Yuri Semenov (Юрий Иванович Семёнов)

Yuri Ivanovich Semenov (Юрий Иванович Семёнов, 1929–2023), Soviet and Russian Marxist historian, philosopher, and ethnologist; creator of politarism theory and anthroposociogenesis; MIPT and MSU professor, author of about 500 works.

Sep 27, 2026

Yuri Seredchkin

Yuri Seredchkin (Юрий Сердечкин) is a Russian politician serving as Deputy Minister for the Development of the Far East and Arctic since May 2026, after leading Murmansk.

Yuri Smirnov

Yuri Mikhailovich Smirnov (Юрий Михайлович Смирнов; 1921–2007) was a Soviet general topologist at Moscow State University, best known for the Nagata–Smirnov metrization theorem and his theory of proximity spaces.

Yuri Trifonov

Yuri Trifonov (Юрий Трифонов; full name Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov, 1925–1981) was a Soviet Russian writer, the best-known author of "urban prose," whose Moscow novellas include The House on the Embankment.

Yuri Tsunematsu (恒松祐里)

Yuri Tsunematsu (恒松祐里) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo with the agency Amuse. A child actor from 2005 (Ruri no Shima), her film lead debut was Kisaragi Station (2022); she won the Osaka Cinema Festival 2020 New Actress Award for Nagi Machi.

Oct 21, 2026

Yuri Vardanyan

Yuri Vardanyan (Յուրի Վարդանյան), Soviet-Armenian weightlifter (1956–2018): 1980 Moscow Olympic gold at 82.5 kg with a 400 kg total, seven world titles, 41–42 world records, later Armenia's sports minister and ambassador to Georgia.

Sep 24, 2026

Yuri Vsevolodovich

Yuri Vsevolodovich (Юрий Всеволодович) was Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1218 until his death in 1238; he founded Nizhny Novgorod in 1221 and was killed fighting the Mongols.

Yuri Y. Shprits

Yuri Y. Shprits is a space physicist who heads the Space Physics and Space Weather section at GFZ in Potsdam and is a professor at the University of Potsdam.

Yuri Zhirkov (Юрий Валентинович Жирков)

Yuri Zhirkov (Юрий Валентинович Жирков), born 1983 in Tambov, Russian left-sided footballer; UEFA Cup winner with CSKA Moscow, Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament, Chelsea 2009-11, retired February 2023.

Yuria

Yuria is a 1967 poetry collection by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published by Joaquín Mortiz in Mexico City, notable for political poems new to his work.

Sep 19, 2026

Yuridia

Yuridia, born Yuridia Francisca Gaxiola Flores in 1986, is a Mexican singer who finished second on La Academia in 2005 and became one of Mexico's best-selling artists.

Yurii Khmelnytsky

Yurii Khmelnytsky (Юрій Хмельницький; monastic name Gedeon) was a Cossack hetman, the younger son of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who served three times during the Ruin era.

Yurii Lytvyn

Yurii Lytvyn (Юрій Литвин) was a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist who spent about 20 years as a Soviet political prisoner and died in custody in 1984.

Yurii Nemyrych

Yurii Nemyrych (Юрій Немирич, 1612–1659) was a Ukrainian magnate, diplomat, and chancellor who conceived the Grand Duchy of Ruthenia and drafted the Treaty of Hadiach of 1658.

Sep 21, 2026

Yurii Nesterov

Yurii Nesterov is a Soviet-born Belgian mathematician in optimization, known for the 1983 accelerated gradient method, and professor emeritus at UCLouvain who won the 2026 Gauss Prize.

Yurii Reshetnyak

Yurii Reshetnyak (Юрий Григорьевич Решетняк, 1929–2021) was a Russian mathematician who spent his career in Novosibirsk and is known for the Reshetnyak gluing theorem and the theory of mappings with bounded distortion.

Yurii Tiutiunnyk

Yurii Tiutiunnyk (Юрій Тютюнник, 1891–1930) was a Ukrainian military commander and insurgent otaman who rose to general in the UNR Army, led the Second Winter Campaign of 1921, and was executed in Moscow in 1930.

Sep 27, 2026

Yurii Vilkul

Yurii Hryhorovych Vilkul, born in 1949, is a Ukrainian politician of the Ukrainian Perspective party serving as acting mayor of Kryvyi Rih since 2021, after a decade as mayor.

Yurii Vynnychuk

Yurii Vynnychuk (Юрій Винничук; born 1952) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, and editor known as the "father of black humor" in Ukrainian literature, whose fiction centers on Lviv.