Yuri Plisetsky

*This article is about the **Yuri Plisetsky** character. For articles that share the same name, see Yuri.*

## Yuri Plisetsky

### Alias

Russian Fairy
Russian Punk/Yankee (by Yuuri Katsuki)
Koneko-chan / Kitten (by Victor Nikiforov)
Yurochka (by Nikolai Plisetsky)
Yurio (given by Mari Katsuki)
Ice Tiger of Russia (Self)
Yuri-chan (by JJ)

## Profile

### Age

16 (Debut)
17 (Current)

## Relationships

### Other relatives

Nikolai Plisetsky (Paternal Grandfather)Unnamed Paternal Grandmother †

## Voice Actors

### Japanese

Kōki Uchiyama
Shiho Kokido (Young)

### English

Micah Solusod

**Yuri Plisetsky** (ユーリ・プリセツキー, *Yūri Purisetsukī*), (Russian: Юрий Плисецкий), is a competitive figure skater from Russia.

## Description

### Appearance

Yuri has blond, chin-length hair that covers the right side of his face and viridian-colored eyes. He is short-statured with a skinny frame; because of his appearance, he is nicknamed **the Russian Fairy**, suggesting that he is very attractive.

His warm-up uniform is either his training outfit or his costume under a black zip-up hoodie with black pants, sneakers, and a zip-up baseball tee styled runner with "Russia" across the chest. His skates have special blades that are said to make it easier to perform jumps. When not in performance costumes or warm-up gear, Yuri loves to wear clothing with mainly big cat prints.

### Personality

Yuri is a very ambitious boy who is determined to become the best of the best in figure skating. Contrary to his beauty and grace on the ice, once Yuri steps out of the rink he becomes foul-mouthed, rude, and dismissive of othersーearning him his second nickname, the Russian Punk. To ensure he gets what he wants, Yuri is not above threatening or intimidating his competition. He is short-tempered and very accustomed to yelling.

Yuri is both very critical of himself and determined to impress Victor. He despises being underestimated and projects a strong air of confidenceーstrong enough to come across as arrogance, instead. He is prone to seeing other athletes as his rivals, and therefore his enemies. While Yuri has been noted to not take training seriously at first, he can undertake highly rigorous training to do well, and does so without complaining.

A softer side to Yuri's personality can be seen when he thinks of his grandfather, and later when he gives Yuuri Katsuki some Pirozhki for his birthday. Yuri also shows this side of him to the few people he regards as friends, most notably Otabek Altin and Yuuko Nishigori.

## Etymology

* The instance of the name **Yuri** most likely used here means "the light of God".
	+ The name **Yuri** is not only Russian, but it is also a Greek, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean name.

## Trivia

* The inspiration for Yuri is a Russian figure skater named Yulia Lipnitskaya.
	+ Yuri also shares his last name with Maia Plissetskaya, the first dancer to have been praised as a "prima ballerina assoluta".
* While choreographer Kenji Miyamoto performed the programs for every other skater in the anime, Yuri's choreography was the only one performed by a female skater named **Honoka Kawanishi** to make it easier to animate.
* Yuri's Instagram is yuri\_plisetsky.
* Yuri has been the main provider for his family since his days competing as a rookie, receiving government aid for skating.
* Yuri's mother was supposed to make an appearance in Episode 3 (during the Onsen on Ice), but she had to be cut out due to lack of time.
* Yuri's favorite animal is a tiger, but he loves cats in general as he owns a cat named Potya.
* Adding on his love for cats, Yuri's phone case has a white tiger's face. He also has a shirt with a tiger print on it, as well as one with a lion print.
* Yuri's short program score in the Barcelona GPF would have exceeded the real-life world record by nearly 8 points.
* Yuri's first Instagram post that appears in the ending reads '#StPetersburg #Russia'
* The caption in Yuri's second post in the ending credits reads 'Lion'
* Yuri has rabid fans named "Yuri's Angels" who appear at every competition.
* When the Series was in it's Early stages as "Yu-Gi-Oh: Ice", planned as a Sequel to the Original Yu-Gi-Oh Anime before becoming about Figure Skating, Yuri was conceived to be Yugi Muto Jr.'s (The Early name For Yuuri Katsuki) Bully, with Christophe Giacometti, Who was conceived as a 12 Year Old named Jay as his Underling, also that his Phone was morph into His D-Pad.