Yuriy Vasilevich Shatunov was a Russian singer, best known lead vocalist of the Russian 1980's band Laskoviy Mai. After Laskoviy Mai disbanded in 1992, Shatunov found recognition as a solo singer.
Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin was a Soviet and later Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker in the Russian parliament. Shchekochikhin wrote and campaigned against the influence of organized crime and corruption. His last non-fiction book, Slaves of the KGB, was about people who worked as KGB informers.
Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and singer/songwriter who leads the rock band DDT, which he founded with Vladimir Sigachyov in 1980.
Yuri Nikolaevich Stoyanov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, musician. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2001). Most famous comedian duo with Ilya Oleynikov.
Yuri Vella, full name Yurii Kilevich Aivaseda, known by his pseudonym Yuri Vella, was a writer, poet, environmentalist and social activist of the Forest Nenets people from Western Siberia.
Prince Prince Yuri Dolgorukov was a Russian general in chief and military governor of Moscow from May to November 1797, as well as the author of a set of military memoirs.
Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov was a Soviet and Russian chemistry professor and rector of the University of Rostov. He was the son of Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov and a former husband of Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.
