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Yury Salnikov
Yury Salnikov (Юрий Григорьевич Сальников, born 1950, Tovuz) is a Soviet equestrian eventing rider, not the swimmer Vladimir Salnikov: 1980 Moscow Olympic team gold and individual bronze on Pintset, 1976 Olympian, later coach in Rostov-on-Don.
Yury Savichev
Yury Savichev (Юрий Николаевич Савичев, born 1965, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian striker, twin brother of Nikolay Savichev, Olympic champion 1988 who scored the winning goal in the Seoul final against Brazil, and later Torpedo Moscow, Olympiakos, Saarbrücken, and St. Pauli player.
Yury Sedykh
Yury Sedykh (Юрий Седых), Soviet hammer thrower (1955-2021), two-time Olympic champion 1976 and 1980, 1991 world champion, and holder of the still-standing 86.74 m world record set in Stuttgart in 1986.
Yury Sergeyev
Yury Sergeyev (Юрий Валентинович Сергеев), Soviet speed skater, Dynamo Moskva, held the 500 m world record 1952–1956 (40.8), finished fourth in the event at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics, later a Moscow coach; died 2024 aged 99.
Yury Sharov
Yury Sharov (Юрий Дмитриевич Шаров, 1939–2021), Soviet foil fencer from Saratov; Olympic team gold 1964, silver 1968, four world team titles, later coach and 1980 Olympic referee.
Yury Shevtsov
Yury Shevtsov (Юрий Анатольевич Шевцов), Belarusian handball right wing, Olympic champion 1988 and world champion 1982 with USSR, SKA Minsk star, later coach of German clubs and Belarus national team.
Yury Sisikin
Yury Sisikin (Юрий Фёдорович Сисикин), Soviet foil fencer (1937–2025): two Olympic team foil golds (1960, 1964), 1960 individual silver, five world team titles, FIE Hall of Fame 2024.
Yury Skobov
Yury Skobov (Юрий Георгиевич Скобов), Soviet cross-country skier, 1949–2024; Olympic gold in the 4×10 km relay at Sapporo 1972, world relay silver at Falun 1974, four-time Soviet champion.
Yury Slyusar
Yury Slyusar is a Russian politician who serves as Governor of Rostov Oblast, having earlier worked in aviation and music production and led a state aircraft-building corporation.
Yury Stetsenko
Yury Stetsenko (Юрий Николаевич Стеценко), born 1945 in Kyiv, Soviet/Ukrainian sprint kayaker; 1972 Olympic K4 1000 m gold medalist, three-time world champion (1966 K2, 1970 and 1971 K4), 11-time Soviet champion.
Yury Titov
Yury Titov (Юрий Евлампиевич Титов), born 1935 in Omsk, Soviet gymnast with nine Olympic medals and 1976–1996 president of the FIG, reformer of judging and Olympic gymnastics formats.
Yury Trutnev
Yury Trutnev is a Russian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, first appointed in 2020 and reappointed in 2024.
Yury Tyukalov
Yury Tyukalov (Юрий Сергеевич Тюкалов), Soviet rower (1930–2018), first Soviet Olympic rowing champion: single sculls gold Helsinki 1952, double sculls gold with Aleksandr Berkutov Melbourne 1956, silver Rome 1960; later coach and sculptor.
Yury Vengerovsky
Yury Vengerovsky (Юрий Наумович Венгеровский), Soviet volleyball setter from Kharkiv, 1938–1998; Olympic gold at Tokyo 1964, world champion 1962, World Cup 1965, Soviet champion 1963 with CSKA; later coach in Belgorod.
Yury Vlasov
Yury Petrovich Vlasov (Юрий Петрович Власов), Soviet super-heavyweight weightlifter; 1960 Rome Olympic gold with the first 200 kg clean & jerk (202.5 kg), 1964 silver, 34 world records, later novelist and politician.
Yury Zaitsev (Mari El politician)
Yury Zaitsev is a Russian politician serving as Head of the Mari El Republic, where his tenure focuses on healthcare access, road repair, and regional development.
Yury Zakharevich
Yury Zakharevich (Юрий Иванович Захаревич), Soviet/Russian weightlifter born 1963; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold at ≤110 kg with 455 kg total; world champion 1985–87; 38–41 world records.
Yury Zaytsev
Yury Zaytsev (Юрий Константинович Зайцев), Soviet heavyweight weightlifter born 1951 in Sakhalin, died 2022 in Dnipro; 1976 Montreal Olympic champion and 1976, 1978 world champion; distinct from other namesakes.
Yury Zorin
Yury Andreyevich Zorin (Юрий Андреевич Зорин), Soviet 400m hurdler and sprinter born 1947 in Turinsk; 8th in the 1972 Munich Olympic 400m hurdles final, European indoor relay champion and European Championships relay silver medallist.
Yuryivka Raion
Yuryivka Raion (Юр'ївський район), a 1991–2020 district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Yurivka; abolished in the 2020 reform and merged into Pavlograd Raion.
Yuryung (crater on Callisto)
Yuryung is a 75.10-km-wide impact crater on Callisto at latitude -54.70, longitude 85.70, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Yakutian heaven god.
Yus (Ѧ ѧ)
Yus (Ѧ ѧ, little yus; Ѫ ѫ, big yus) are historic Cyrillic letters for the Old Church Slavonic nasal vowels [ẽ] and [õ]; lost in Russian by the 1708–1710 reform, ancestor of я.
Yusaku Kamekura
Yusaku Kamekura (亀倉雄策, 1915–1997) was a Japanese graphic designer whose emblem and official posters for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics became defining images of postwar Japanese design.
Yusaku Maezawa (前澤友作)
Yusaku Maezawa (前澤友作) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Start Today in 1998, built Zozotown into Japan's largest fashion e-commerce platform, and sold control in 2019.
Yusaku Nakabeppu
Yusaku Nakabeppu (中別府 雄作) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for work on Fos/Jun transcription factors and the cellular defense system against the oxidized DNA base 8-oxoguanine.
Yusef Bukele
Yusef Alí Bukele Ortez, Salvadoran businessman and economist, twin brother of President Nayib Bukele; unofficial advisor on economic policy and Bitcoin, holds no government office.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa, born 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, is an American poet whose Vietnam War poems and jazz rhythms won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Yusen Dai (戴雨森)
Yusen Dai (戴雨森) is a Chinese venture capitalist and Managing Partner at ZhenFund, a Beijing angel fund, known for early AI investments like Moonshot AI and Manus.
Yushan school
The Yushan school (虞山派) was a school of Chinese landscape painting that formed around the early Qing painter Wang Hui (1632–1717) and his many disciples.
Yushan Yan
Yushan Yan is an American chemical engineer, the Henry B. du Pont Professor at the University of Delaware, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.