Yuri was educated at the Novosibirsk State Choreographic College and then the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. He was a student of Andrei Leonidovich Bespalov, Olga Gennadievna Krupko, and Lyudmila Popilina at the Novosibirsk State Choreographic College. His teachers at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet included Andrey Anatolievich Yermolenkov, Vadim Anatolievich Sirotin, Vadim Sergeevich Desnitsky, and Valery Evgenievich Sergeyev.
From 2014 he has been engaged by the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. He has toured with the Theatre Ballet to Saint Petersburg, Moscow (the Bolshoi Theatre), Budapest, Sevastopol (Chersonesus).
Took part in a tour in Harbin (The People’s Republic of China), Doha (Qatar) and at the Mariinsky Theatre (St Petersburg) and at the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow) as a member of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage.
Since March 2020 he has been a soloist of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
The Sleeping Beauty (Carabosse the Wicked Fairy, Bridegrooms of the Princess); choreography by Marius Petipa revised by Konstantin Sergeev, Eldar Aliev,
The Nutcracker (Drosselmeyer, Mouse King, Russian dance); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
La Bayadère (Magdaveya, Toloragva, Indian dance); choreography by Marius Petipa revised by Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani,
Le Corsaire (soloist in Forban); choreography by Eldar Aliev using fragment of choreography by Marius Petipa,
The Little Humpbacked Horse (The Tsar, Old Man, Horses, Sea Horses),
Carmen Suite (Corregidor); choreography by Alberto Alonso,
Phaedra (Theseus); choreography by Flemming Flindt,
A Thousand and One Nights (Shakhriar, Slave, Sinbad); choreography by Eldar Aliev,
Giselle (Hans); choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa,
Don Quixote (Gypsy Dance); choreography by Alexander Gorsky,
Raymonda (Abderakhman); choreography by Marius Petipa revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev and Eldar Aliev.
Repertoire also includes:
Giselle, ou les Wilis (Hans), choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, revised version by Nikita Dolgushin;
Le Corsaire (Birbanto), choreography by Marius Petipa, Pyotr Gusev, Vyacheslav Khomyakov;
The Nutcracker (Spanish Dance), choreography by Vasili Vainonen;
Don Quixote (Gypsy Dance), choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky, revised version by Mikhail Messerer;
Cinderella (Foreign Prince. Spanish Dance), choreography by Vladimir Zakharov, revised version by Mikhail Messerer;
Coppélia (Bridegrooms), choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, Marius Petipa, Enrico Cecchetti, Alexander Gorsky, revised version by Mikhail Messerer;
Swan Lake (Spanish Dance), choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Alexander Gorsky, Asaf Messerer, revised version by Mikhail Messerer;
Romeo & Juliet (Romeo’s friends), choreography by Oleg Vinogradov;
Spartacus (Four shepherds), choreography by Yuri Grigorovich;
The Sleeping Beauty (the Wolf), choreography by Nacho Duato;
Chipollino (Pero Pera), choreography by Genrikh Mayorov;
The Nutcracker (the Mouse King, Spanish Dance, Russian Dance), choreography by Nacho Duato;
Three Little Pigs (the Wolf), choreography by Mintay Tleubayev;
The Flames of Paris (Basque), choreography by Mikhail Messerer;
George Balanchine’s ballets Rubies (soloist), Diamonds (soloist).
