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Yury Dumchev
Yury Dumchev (Юрий Думчев), Soviet discus thrower born 1958, set a 71.86 m world record in 1983, placed fifth at the 1980 and fourth at the 1988 Olympics, won the 1984 Friendship Games, and later acted in over 50 Russian films.
Yury Fedkin
Yury Fedkin (Юрий Николаевич Федькин), Russian sport shooter born 1960 in Moscow; won 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold in men's 10 m air rifle for the Unified Team with an Olympic-record 695.3 points.
Yury Filatov
Yury Filatov (Юрий Николаевич Филатов, Юрій Миколайович Філатов), born 1948, Soviet Ukrainian canoeist; two-time Olympic K-4 1000 m champion (Munich 1972, Montreal 1976) and 1970, 1971 world champion; not the football executive Valery Filatov.
Yury Gavrilov
Yury Vasilyevich Gavrilov (Юрий Васильевич Гаврилов, born 1953, Setun) is a Soviet/Russian attacking midfielder, Spartak Moscow great, USSR champion 1976 and 1979, 1980 Olympic bronze medalist, later coach of DR Congo; distinct from the 1967 handball player and his footballer sons.
Yury Gogotsi
Yury Gogotsi, born in 1961, is a Ukrainian-born materials chemist and Distinguished University Professor at Drexel University, known for the 2011 discovery of MXenes and work on electrochemical capacitors.
Yury Horlau
Yury Horlau, also known as Yury Gorlov, is a Belarusian politician who serves as Minister of Agriculture and Food, reporting to President Alexander Lukashenko on harvest progress.
Yury Kashirin
Yury Kashirin (Юрий Алексеевич Каширин, born 1959) is a Soviet road cyclist, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist in the 100 km team time trial and 1983 world champion, later a coach in Canada; distinct from boxer Yury Kashinsky and weightlifter Tatiana Kashirina.
Yury Kashkarov
Yury Fyodorovich Kashkarov (Юрий Фёдорович Кашкаров), born 1963 in Khanty-Mansiysk, is a Soviet-Belarusian biathlete, 1984 Olympic relay gold medalist and five-time world champion.
Yury Khmylyov
Yury Khmylyov (Юрий Хмылёв, also Khmylev), born 1964 in Moscow, is a Russian left wing; 1992 Olympic gold with the Unified Team, two-time world champion, Krylya Sovetov star, and NHL forward for Buffalo and St. Louis.
Yury Kidyayev
Yury Konstantinovich Kidyayev (Юрий Константинович Кидяев), born 1955 in Moscow, Soviet handball player for CSKA; Olympic gold 1976 and silver 1980, world champion 1982, later a coach in Germany and Ukraine.
Yury Klimov
Yury Klimov (Юрий Михайлович Климов), Soviet handball left back and coach, 1976 Olympic champion and USSR captain, 173 caps and 423 goals, seven-time Soviet champion with MAI, later world-champion 1982 assistant coach and Iran national team coach.
Yury Kondakov
Yury Kondakov (Юрий Георгиевич Кондаков, born 1951) is a Soviet speed skater, 1976 Olympic 1,500 m silver medalist, 1975 world all-around bronze medalist, and former 3,000 m and 5,000 m world record holder.
Yury Kovshov
Yury Kovshov (Юрий Александрович Ковшов), born 1951 in Serhetabat, Soviet Uzbek-born dressage rider; team gold and individual silver at the 1980 Moscow Olympics on Igrok, 1988 Olympian, 1990 World team silver.
Yury Krylov
Yury Krylov (Юрий Николаевич Крылов), Soviet ice hockey winger and defenseman, 1956 Olympic gold medalist with the USSR; not the swimmer Andrey Krylov or UFC fighter Nikita Krylov. Dynamo Moskva 1951-65, world champion 1954 and 1956.
Yury Kutenko
Yury Kutenko (Юрій Костянтинович Кутенко, 1932-2003) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet decathlete, fourth at the 1960 Rome Olympics, 1961 European record holder, later a Lviv coach and sports school director.
Yury Lituyev
Yury Lituyev (Юрий Николаевич Литуев), Soviet 400 m hurdler (1925-2000): 1952 Olympic silver, 50.4 world record in Budapest 1953, 1958 European champion, 13 Soviet titles, later coach of the 1964 Soviet Olympic team.
Yury Lobanov
Yury Terentyevich Lobanov (Юрий Терентьевич Лобанов, 1952–2017), Soviet sprint canoeist born in Dushanbe; 1972 Olympic C2-1000 m gold with Vladas Česiūnas, first Tajikistani Olympic champion, 1980 bronze, multiple world titles.
Yury Luzhkov (Юрий Михайлович Лужков)
Yury Luzhkov (Юрий Михайлович Лужков), Moscow mayor 1992–2010, founder of Fatherland-All Russia, dismissed by Medvedev in 2010 for loss of confidence; builder of Moscow's post-Soviet transformation.
Yury Lyapkin
Yury Lyapkin (Юрий Евгеньевич Ляпкин), Soviet defenseman born 1945 in Balashikha; 1976 Olympic gold, four World titles with USSR, Spartak Moscow and Khimik star, later coach in Japan.
Yury Malyshev
Yury Aleksandrovich Malyshev (Юрий Александрович Малышев), Soviet rower born 1947 in Khimki; won men's single sculls gold at Munich 1972 in 7:10.12 and later coached Russia's 2004 Olympic quadruple sculls champions. Distinct from cosmonaut Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev.
Yury Melnichenko
Yury Melnichenko (Юрий Мельниченко), born 1972, is a Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler who won the 1996 Atlanta gold and later served as a federation vice-president and coach.
Yury Moiseyev
Yury Moiseyev (Юрий Иванович Моисеев, 1940–2005) was a Soviet ice hockey forward who won Olympic gold at the 1968 Grenoble Games and later coached Dynamo Moscow and Ak Bars Kazan.
Yury Mukhin
Yury Mukhin (Юрий Мухин, born 1971) is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer who won Olympic gold as a heat swimmer in the 1992 Unified Team 4×200 m relay.
Yury Natochin
Yury Viktorovich Natochin (Юрий Викторович Наточин, born 1932 in Kharkiv) is a Soviet and Russian physiologist and academician known for kidney water-salt balance research and studies of cosmonauts.
Yury Panchenko
Yury Panchenko (Юрий Петрович Панченко, born 1959, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian-born volleyball player who won Olympic gold for the USSR at Moscow 1980, silver at Seoul 1988, and later coached in Italy, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
Yury Pantyukhov
Yury Pantyukhov (Юрий Борисович Пантюхов, 1931–1982), Soviet ice hockey forward, 1956 Olympic gold medalist at Cortina d'Ampezzo, World champion 1954 and 1956, eight-time Soviet champion with Krylya Sovetov, VVS, and CSKA Moscow; not the powerlifter of the same name.
Yury Pensky
Yury Pensky is an American business executive who has served as President of Belvedere Trading, a Chicago proprietary trading firm in equity index and commodity derivatives, since January 2025.
Yury Postrigay
Yury Postrigay (Юрий Постригай, born 1988, Yekaterinburg), Russian sprint kayaker, Olympic K2 200 m gold medalist at London 2012 with Aleksandr Dyachenko, and world K2 200 m champion in 2013 and 2019.
Yury Prokhorov
Yury Prokhorov (Юрий Васильевич Прохоров, 1929–2013) was a Soviet and Russian probability theorist who succeeded Kolmogorov at the Steklov Institute and created the Prokhorov compactness theorem and the Lévy–Prokhorov metric.
Yury Rudov
Yury Rudov (Юрий Васильевич Рудов, 1931–2013), Soviet foil fencer with Dynamo Moskva; Olympic team foil gold at Rome 1960, world team titles 1959, 1961, 1963, and 1958 silver; later a fencing coach.