Yury
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Gender | masculine |
Language(s) | East Slavic |
Origin | |
Word/name | Georgios |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Yuri, Youri, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii, Iouri Juri, Jüri |
Variant form(s) | Georgy, Yegor |
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Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the East Slavic (Ukrainian: Юрій, or Russian: Юрий, or Belarusian: Юрый) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy and Czech/Slovak Jiří.
The Slavic form of the name originates with Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince of Kiev and founder of Moscow (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)
- 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
See also
- All pages beginning with "Yury"
- All pages beginning with "Yuri"
- Igor (given name)
References
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