Yury

Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the Slavic (Ukrainian: Юрій, romanized: Jurij, or Russian: Юрий, romanized: Jurij, or Bulgarian: Юрий, romanized: Jurij, or Belarusian: Юры, romanized: Jury) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy, Brazilian Portuguese Iury, Spanish and Portuguese Jorge, Dutch Joeri, Czech Jiří and German Jürgen.

Yury

Yuri Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince of Kyiv
Pronunciation	Russian: [ˈjʉrʲɪj], Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈjur⁽ʲ⁾ij]
Gender	masculine
Language(s)	Slavic
Origin
Word/name	Georgios
Other names
Alternative spelling	Yuri, Youri, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii, Iouri, Juri
Variant form(s)	Georgy, Yegor

The Slavic form of the name originates with Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince of Kyiv (c. 1099–1157), in early accounts recorded as Gyurgi, Dyurgi. Yaroslav the Wise, great-grandfather of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, was the first Ruthenian ruler whose patron saint was Saint George. The saint is now depicted on the coat of arms of Moscow.

• Yuri II of Vladimir (1189–1238)
• Yury Ivanovich (1480–1536)
• Yury Luzhkov (1936–2019), Russian politician
• Yuriy Trubetskoy (c. 1643–1679), Ruthenian Prince
• Yuriy Drohobych (1450–1494), Ukrainian philosopher, astrologist, writer, and doctor
• Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), USSR, Soviet cosmonaut – The first human in space
• Yuri Lyapkin (born 1945), Russian ice hockey defenceman
• Yuri Bezmenov (1939-1993, Soviet defector and critic
• Yury Prilukov
• Yury Rudov
• Yury Usachov
• Yuri Andropov
• Yuri Nikulin
• Yuri Zhirkov
• Yuri Vizbor
• Yuri Shevchuk

People named Yuri in other cultures

• Harold Urey, American scientist
• Ray Ewry, American athlete
• Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer and coach
• Brendon Urie, American singer
• Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-born American psychologist

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Yury
• All pages with titles beginning with Yuri
• Igor (given name)

References