Valerij is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *

Valerij Popov Valerij Sergeyevich Popov (born 10 September 1974) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Popov won the championship of Saint Petersburg, his native city, in 2001 and 2006. In 2014 he shared first p ...

, Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Popov won the championship *

Valerij Zhuravliov Valerij Ivanovich Zhuravliov (russian: Валерий Иванович Журавлёв, lv, Valērijs Žuravļovs; December 11, 1938 – July 18, 2021) was a Soviet/ Latvian chess master who has won the Latvian Chess Championship three times. H ...

, Soviet/Latvian chess master *

Valerij Verhušin Valerij Verhušin (10 March 1960 – 6 January 2017) was a Russian naturalized Macedonian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 74 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olymp ...

, Macedonian wrestler

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